# Wget2

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wget/wget2/  
**Provider:** Wget — https://apis.io/providers/wget/  
**Base URL:** https://gnuwget.gitlab.io/wget2/  
**Documentation:** https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2

Wget2 is one of 2 APIs that [Wget](https://apis.io/providers/wget/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include CLI, File Download, HTTP Client, HTTP/2, and Multithreaded. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, release notes, a changelog, and 2 JSON Schemas.

GNU Wget2 is the next-generation successor to GNU Wget, built from scratch around libwget. It is multi-threaded, supports HTTP/2, HTTP compression, parallel connections, If-Modified-Since headers, plugin APIs, RSS/Atom feed scanning, Sitemap XML support, and Metalink. Libwget is licensed under LGPLv3+ for use as a reusable library.

## Machine-readable artifacts (9)

- **Documentation** — https://gnuwget.gitlab.io/wget2/reference/
- **Source Code** — https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
- **GitHub Mirror** — https://github.com/gnuwget/wget2
- **Plugin API** — https://gnuwget.gitlab.io/wget2/reference/group__libwget-plugin.html
- **ReleaseNotes** — https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/releases
- **Wiki** — https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/wikis/home
- **ChangeLog** — https://fossies.org/linux/wget/ChangeLog
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wget/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wget-download-request-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wget/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wget2-plugin-schema.json

## Other Wget APIs (1)

- [Wget](https://apis.io/apis/wget/wget/)

## Tags

CLI, File Download, HTTP Client, HTTP/2, Multithreaded, Plugin API, GNU, Open-Source

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