How to `wget` a list of URLs in a text file?

Question

Let\'s say I have a text file of hundreds of URLs in one location, e.g.

http://url/file_to_download1.gz
http://url/file_to_download2.gz
http://url/file_to_downlo         


        

Answer 1

Quick man wget gives me the following:

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-i file

--input-file=file

Read URLs from a local or external file. If - is specified as file, URLs are read from the standard input. (Use ./- to read from a file literally named -.)

If this function is used, no URLs need be present on the command line. If there are URLs both on the command line and in an input file, those on the command lines will be the first ones to be retrieved. If --force-html is not specified, then file should consist of a series of URLs, one per line.

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So: wget -i text_file.txt

Answer 2

If you're on OpenWrt or using some old version of wget which doesn't gives you -i option:

#!/bin/bash
input="text_file.txt"
while IFS= read -r line
do
  wget $line
done < "$input"

Furthermore, if you don't have wget, you can use curl or whatever you use for downloading individual files.

Answer 3

try:

wget -i text_file.txt

(check man wget)

Answer 4

If you also want to preserve the original file name, try with:

wget --content-disposition --trust-server-names -i list_of_urls.txt

Answer 5

Run it in parallel with

cat text_file.txt | parallel --gnu "wget {}"