W

Wget

http-library [wW]get

GNU Wget command-line tool for downloading web content

About this crawler

Wget is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern [wW]get in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Wget traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: [wW]get
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Wget
Pattern
[wW]get
Tags
http-library
Instances
3 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

WGETbot/1.0 (+http://wget.alanreed.org)
Wget/1.14 (linux-gnu)
Wget/1.20.3 (linux-gnu)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Wget:

User-agent: Wget Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} [wW]get [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "[wW]get") { return 403; }
← back to all crawlers