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GNU Wget2 vs Browsertrix Crawler: catalog facts
GNU Wget2	Browsertrix Crawler
Free Free and open source under the GPL.	Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub by Webrecorder.
macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
Parallel connections and HTTP/2 make recursive mirroring much faster Keeps Wget's command line, so existing habits carry over	Captures pages through a real browser rather than raw HTML Writes standard WARC and WACZ archive files
Not a complete drop-in replacement; some Wget options are missing Packaged separately from wget, so it is not installed by default	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
Not stated if an account is 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 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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