About
wget fetches files over HTTP, HTTPS and FTP without any prompts. That makes it a natural fit for scripts and scheduled jobs. Use it to pull one file, resume a broken transfer, or mirror a small site.
Install it
pkg install wget
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
5 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
wget -O page.html https://example.com Download a page and save it under a filename you choose. wget -c https://example.com/big.iso Resume an interrupted download from where it stopped. Matters on a flaky mobile connection. wget -r -l 2 https://example.com/docs/ Mirror a small site to a chosen depth. Read it offline. wget --spider https://example.com Check that a URL exists without saving it. Useful for validating links in a script. wget -q -O - https://example.com/status Fetch quietly and print to standard output. Another tool can consume the result. Worked example
Run wget -O file.zip https://example.com/file.zip and this is what you should see.
$ wget -O file.zip https://example.com/file.zip
--2026-10-24 10:00:00-- https://example.com/file.zip
Resolving example.com... 93.184.216.34
Connecting to example.com|93.184.216.34|:443... connected.
Saving to: file.zip
file.zip 100%[====>] 4.20M 2.10MB/s in 2.0s Developed by
The GNU Project · released under GPL-3.0.