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rewget vs the classics

We are not trying to win an argument about wget vs curl — both are excellent tools. rewget keeps the wget shape and fixes the one place it falls down: sites that block plain HTTP clients. Here is how it lines up.

rewget vs bare wget

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Same CLI, same scripts, same output on sites that do not block. rewget is what wget would be if it noticed when a site was actively blocking it and retried with a browser fingerprint.

rewget vs bare curl

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A different shape. curl is one-shot and request-oriented; rewget (like wget) is download-oriented with resume and recursion. Pick rewget when you want wget muscle memory to keep working through blocks.

Still deciding? The how-it-works page explains the fallback that makes the difference, and the FAQ answers the adoption questions.