WinWGet Portable 0.20 Released

Submitted by Patrick Patience on October 21, 2008 - 11:01am

logoWinWGet Portable 0.20 has been released. It's the lightweight WinWGet download manager packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so take your download manager and downloads with you. WinWGet uses the powerful Wget as a backend. It has all the same great features of WinWGet. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Features

WinWGet Portable ScreenshotWinWGet Portable is an easy to use download manager with lots of great features:

  • Threaded jobs
  • Monitor Clipboard for URL's (or new URLs only)
  • Resume for Downloads
  • Jobs export into HTML file
  • Predefined user-agents (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Flashget, etc.)
  • Support for asp/php redirection and http authentication
  • Multiple ftp files/dirs download (? and * chars)
  • Bit rate limit (download speed)
  • Lot's more...

Learn more about WinWGet...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

WinWGet Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

WinWGet Portable is available for immediate download from the WinWGet Portable homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller

October 21, 2008 - 11:14am

Fixed thanks.

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John T. Haller

October 21, 2008 - 1:16pm

Thanks for your work on this Patrick.

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OliverK

October 21, 2008 - 1:43pm

Great job- I'm glad to see this finally released Biggrin

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Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

After clicking on the Download button of the WinWGet Portable download page, I get redirected to the SourceForge's download pages (as expected), but nothing happens then, apart from a lot of messages "Waiting for [sourceforgemirrorname]..." in the Firefox's status bar, where [sourceforgemirrorname] is, of course, a name of a SourceForge's mirror, such as belnet.dl.sourceforge.net etc.
I've tried to download using IE too, but with no more success.
Downloading other apps works as always.
And no, I am not right clicking the red button Wink

No typin th las lette ca sav yo plent o spac

Wink

In fact, I am sorry, because a greater time span would have saved one of us the time and effort of reporting.

No typin th las lette ca sav yo plent o spac

Yeah. It is kinda sad.
Perhaps part of the spent time can be saved by creating an online service all forums dwellers will log on to. The service will scan each comment while typed, compare it near-real-time to other users scanned comments and randomly warn one of them when there's a possible duplicate. It will take a lot of developer time, cpu time, servers and bandwidth but it's the only way.

Unless...
We can alternatively create a token-ring based forums. In any given moment only one user have the option of commenting and if he fails to comment within his time frame the token moves on the next user. This will take far less resources than the previous suggested system and it will solve the problem of the spent time and efforts in comparison to the current system but it will inevitably extend the time of posting so the detection-to-reporting cycle might take much longer time to complete.

Anyway you look at it, it's a trade off.

Sad.

Hi, Can't seem to download the file.

I get the normal file download page from sourceforge and than I can see some mirrors in my browser's status bar and than nothing.

Had no problem downloading all other new apps.

Hat off to zooz Smile
I did try that too, but was not patient enough to try all the mirrors.

Edit: Thanks to BuddhaChu for the tip. By the way, can you remember the mirror that did the trick for you?

Edit2: I found it. It's New York, New York (after having tried all the European ones, the other two from North America, even the Asian one).

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John T. Haller

October 22, 2008 - 9:24am

As mentioned in other topics, SourceForge had release issues after routine maintenance yesterday. I've re-released the file, so it should be on all mirrors shortly.

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the homepage is missing the pre-1.0 note though.

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John T. Haller

October 23, 2008 - 1:59pm

We only do that for apps where you could lose some data (Sunbird, Task Coach, etc). Not for utilities, video players and things of that nature.

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so aMSN would get one but ConvertAll wouldnt?

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John T. Haller

October 23, 2008 - 2:13pm

Anything with personal data. But only with personal data. WinWGet, no personal data. ConvertAll, no personal data. aMSN... borderline, maybe personal data in logs, but probably not. And this doesn't belong in a news story.

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billiebub

October 24, 2008 - 6:44pm

finally a nice wrapper around Wget. Thanks

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adrriz

October 25, 2008 - 11:57pm

Oh i'm been waitin 4 this app as i'm a portable guy. So does this app can outwit fdm we'll see but can it integrate to firefox portable bcoz that's the problem with fdm. Anyway, good job guys!!!

WGamradt

January 7, 2009 - 2:35pm

Forgive me for posting this here. I did not see a forum specific to this portable app.

I love this portable app. I have been using wget from the command line for quite some time now and find it to be very helpful. Thank you for bringing this functionality to a graphical interface. NICE!

I ran into an issue with http downloads from sites that require auth. The --http-passwd option does not work. I believe that the option specified is in the improper notation. (This has changed with different versions of wget.) The correct option should be --http-password=. The log entry shows --http-pass. (Does not work.) I was able to work around the issue by specifying the option in the additional parameters field on the Logging and Input tab.

Thanks again for this utility. I will use it often!

Wayne