Node-Wget

A lightweight wget-like CLI tool built with Node.js, supporting file downloads with progress display.

🚀 Features

• Download files from the internet using a single command.
• Show live progress bar during downloads.
• Support custom output file name (-O option).
• Simple and extensible foundation for more wget features.

📦 Installation

Install globally from npm:

npm install -g wget-node-cli

This makes the wget command available system-wide.

To uninstall:

npm uninstall -g wget-node-cli

🔧 Usage

Download a File

wget <url>

Download with Custom Filename

wget <url> -O <filename>

🖼 Example

Download Ferrari splash page image:

wget https://carconfigurator.ferrari.com/rt-assets/data/cars/296gtb/ui/splashpage.jpg -O car.jpg

Output:

Downloading https://carconfigurator.ferrari.com/rt-assets/data/cars/296gtb/ui/splashpage.jpg
Saving to car.jpg
Downloading [===================>---] 85% | 123456/145678 bytes
Download completed!

🛠 Roadmap

• [ ] Resume downloads (--continue)
• [ ] Retry on failure (--tries)
• [ ] Set headers & user-agent (--header, --user-agent)
• [ ] Recursive downloads (--recursive)
• [ ] Timeout control (--timeout)
• [ ] FTP support

📜 License

MIT License.