wget is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I'm running Jupyter Notebook 6.0.1 via Anaconda Navigator, and was working on a Jupyter Notebook using Python 3. Need help to download data using wget. Appreciate a step-by-step solution as I'm new to coding. Thanks.

The code I typed to install wget:

!pip install wget

It returns: Requirement already satisfied: wget in c:\users\louie\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (3.2)

The code to download data:

import wget
!wget -q -O 'newyork_data.json' https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset
print('Data downloaded!')

I get this error message:

'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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Poore

Does this answer your question? wget is not recognized as a command even though it is installed – Surprisal

for windows, you can download wget.exe from eternallybored.org/misc/wget and after downloading move the file wget.exe to C:\Windows\System32 or add it to path in environment variables – Keystroke

Answer 1

!pip install wget

!python -m wget -o 'newyork_data.json' https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset

or:

!pip install wget
import wget
url = 'https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset'
filename = wget.download(url)
print(filename)

Uralite

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These days running pip install inside a notebook should be done without an exclamation point using the magic %pip install command to insure installations occur in the environment that the kernel that backs the active notebook runs. See more about the modern magic install commands here. – Guaco

Answer 2

I faced similar issue then. I did not get the solution but got a workaround, which is using curl in jupyter notebook. In an answer to this post: wget is not recognized as a command even though it is installed

For example

!curl -O https://cocl.us/sanfran_geojson

Linette

I was thinking about this when I run into the same issue but I thought curl would have a more different format ;) – Nethermost

Answer 3

import urllib.request
url = 'https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset.json'
filename = 'newyork.json'
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)
print('GeoJSON file downloaded!')
ny_geo = r'newyork.json' # geojson file

You may use this code as well

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