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GNU Wget vs Browsertrix Crawler: catalog facts
GNU Wget	Browsertrix Crawler
Free Free software under the GNU General Public License.	Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub by Webrecorder.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
Resumes interrupted downloads Recursive mirroring with link conversion	Captures pages through a real browser rather than raw HTML Writes standard WARC and WACZ archive files
Command line only Wget2 is the newer successor with further development	Aimed at technical users rather than casual downloading Output needs a web archive viewer to replay
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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