What is the difference between curl and wget?

Question

I am keen to know the difference between curl and wget. Both are used to get files and documents but what the key difference between them... Why are there two different methods?

Answer 1

The main differences are:

• wget's major strong side compared to curl is its ability to download recursively.
• wget is command line only. There's no lib or anything but curl Features and is powered by libcurl.
• curl supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, RTMP and RTSP. wget supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
• curl builds and runs on more platforms than wget.
• wget is part of the GNU project and all copyrights are assigned to FSF. The curl project is entirely stand-alone and independent with no organization parenting at all
• curl offers upload and sending capabilities. wget only offers plain HTTP POST support.

You can see more details at the following link:

curl vs Wget

Answer 2

Actually, the major difference is that curl includes a library (libcurl), and that library is widely used by other applications. wget is standalone.