5 engineers on Hacker News describe using wget first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Wget doesn't run javascript so you might not get all assets.”
regret · production · ratbeard · 2013-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“turns out wget is way better than I thought... After about 5-6 years, it's still in production with no issues.”
endorse · production · 5 yr · fmavituna · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“only wget has been unwilling to accept it (whereas curl, firefox and chrome have all accepted it)”
regret · personal · erikano · 2010-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using homegrown scripts designed around wget and curl”
neutral · personal · thisIsFiner · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there was (for a while) a dependency that could only be downloaded using wget's recursive downloading.”
neutral · production · StefanKarpinski · 2012-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?