If you are accustomed to using the wget or cURL utilities on
Linux or
Mac OS X
to download webpages from a
command-line interface (CLI), there is a
Gnu
utility,
Wget for Windows
, that you can download and use on systems running Microsoft
Windows. Alternatively, you can use the Invoke-WebRequest
cmdlet from a PowerShell prompt, if you have version 3.0 or greater of
PowerShell on the system. You can determine the version of PowerShell on
a system by opening a PowerShell window and typing $psversiontable.
E.g., in the example below from a Windows 10 system, the version of PowerShell
is 5.1.15063.674.
PS C:\Users\public\documents> $psversiontable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 5.1.15063.674
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.15063.674
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
PS C:\Users\public\documents>If you have version 3.0 or later, you can use wget or
curl as an alias for the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet,
at least up through version 5.x. E.g., if I want to download the home
page for the website example.com to a file named index.html, I could use
the command wget -OutFile index.html http://example.com
at a PowerShell prompt. Or I could use either of the following commands,
instead:
curl -OutFile index.html http://example.com
Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile index.html http://example.com
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