srobin/bwget

Description

A tiny, single‑file replacement for the parts of GNU wget most people actually use: downloading one HTTP/HTTPS resource with a pretty progress bar, automatic filename selection, optional resume, TLS verification, automatic retries, optional SHA‑256 verification, and proxy support via CLI, config file, or environment variables.

Installation Instructions

Install from COPR

# Enable the repo (one-time)
sudo dnf copr enable srobin/bwget

# Install / upgrade bwget
sudo dnf install bwget

Quick usage

# Basic download
bwget https://example.com/file.tar.gz

# Force a *fresh* download (disable resume)
bwget -c https://example.com/large.iso

# Verify with SHA-256
bwget https://example.com/app.tar.gz \
      --sha256 0123456789abcdef…

# Use an HTTP/HTTPS proxy
bwget --proxy http://proxy.local:3128 \
      https://example.com/data.zip

# Show version
bwget --version

Per-user config file

First run creates a sample config at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bwget/config.toml ( falls back to ~/.config/bwget/config.toml ).

[network]
# proxy = "http://user:pass@proxy:8080"
user_agent      = "bwget/0.3.6 (Python/3.x)"
max_retries     = 3
base_backoff    = 1.0
request_timeout = 15   # seconds
stream_timeout  = 30   # seconds

[download]
chunk_size_kb      = 256   # payload read size
hash_chunk_size_mb = 1     # block size for SHA-256 verify

Edit the values to suit your environment (proxy, timeouts, etc.).

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, s390x (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 41 (3 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, s390x (0)*, x86_64 (1)*	Fedora 42 (4 downloads)
Fedora eln	aarch64 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, s390x (0)*, x86_64 (0)*	Fedora eln (0 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, s390x (0)*, x86_64 (0)*	Fedora rawhide (3 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.