How can I set a proxy for Wget?

Question

I want to download something with Wget using a proxy:

HTTP Proxy: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080

The proxy does not need a username and password.

How can I do this?

Saluki

Answer 1

For all users of the system via the /etc/wgetrc or for the user only with the ~/.wgetrc file:

use_proxy=yes
http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080
https_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080

or via -e options placed after the URL:

wget ... -e use_proxy=yes -e http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080 ...

Needlework

My wget says it must be use_proxy=on, not use_proxy=yes. Works well otherwise. – Yvetteyvon

Checked. It works with wget -e <http_proxy>=127.0.0.01:8080 <download>..., omitting the "use_proxy=yes" command parameter. Thanks! – Mayweed

@Thomas Jensen You are right the wgetrc-manual states that it should be on or off, but actually trying a bogus command: -e use_proxy=bnw gives wget: use_proxy: Invalid boolean ‘bnw’; use 'on' or 'off'. while =yes gives no such error, so it seems to be inofficially allowed. – Beaconsfield

http_proxy=http://<user>:<password>@127.0.01:8080 and likewise. otherwise you might have to feed these explicitly while calling the wget (refer - askubuntu.com/a/429943/350255) – Pivot

How do I turn it off? – Blandishment

@Tessaracter : wget --no-proxy – Hexad

Answer 2

Type on the command line:

export http_proxy=http://proxy_host:proxy_port

For an authenticated proxy,

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port

And then run

wget fileurl

For https, just use https_proxy instead of http_proxy. You could also put these lines in your ~/.bashrc file, so that you don't need to execute this every time.

Moderato

How to remove the proxy – Blandishment

$ unset http_proxy – Moderato

experimentally found that needed to use lower case, not upper case $ wget --version GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu. +digest +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +nls +ntlm +opie +ssl/openssl – Ratsbane

Answer 3

The following possible configurations are located in /etc/wgetrc. Just uncomment and use it...

# You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http, https, and ftp.
# They will override the value in the environment.
#https_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#http_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#ftp_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/

# If you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.
#use_proxy = on

Sake

Answer 4

Wget uses environment variables. Something like this at the command line can work:

export http_proxy=http://your_ip_proxy:port/
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
export dns_proxy=$http_proxy
export rsync_proxy=$http_proxy
export no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"

Aphra

Answer 5

After trying many tutorials to configure my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system behind an authenticated proxy, it worked with these steps:

Edit /etc/wgetrc:

sudo nano /etc/wgetrc

Uncomment these lines:

#https_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#http_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#ftp_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#use_proxy = on

Change http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/ to http://username:password@domain:port/

Important: If it still doesn't work, check if your password has special characters, such as #, @, ... If this is the case, escape them (for example, replace passw@rd with passw%40rd).

Mestas

Answer 6

If you need to execute wget just once with the proxy, the easiest way is to do it with a one-liner like this:

http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port wget http://fileurl

or with an https target URL:

https_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port wget https://fileurl

Rehearse

Answer 7

In Debian Linux, wget can be configured to use a proxy both via environment variables and via wgetrc. In both cases, the variable names to be used for HTTP and HTTPS connections are

http_proxy=hostname_or_IP:portNumber
https_proxy=hostname_or_IP:portNumber

Note that the file /etc/wgetrc takes precedence over the environment variables, hence if your system has a proxy configured there and you try to use the environment variables, they would not seem to have any effect!

Urogenital

Answer 8

Use

export http_proxy=http://proxy_host:proxy_port/
export https_proxy=https://proxy_host:proxy_port/

or

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port/
export https_proxy=https://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port/

As all others explained here, these environment variables help to pass on proxies.

Note: But please note that if the password contains any special character then that needs to be configured as %<hex_value_of_special_char>.

Example: If the password is pass#123, it needs to be used as pass%23123 in the above export commands.

Ramiform

Answer 9

In my Ubuntu installation, the following lines in $HOME/.wgetrc did the trick!

http_proxy = http://uname:[email protected]:8080

use_proxy = on

Microclimatology

Answer 10

Add below line(s) in file ~/.wgetrc or /etc/wgetrc (create the file if it is not there):

http_proxy = http://[Proxy_Server]:[port]
https_proxy = http://[Proxy_Server]:[port]
ftp_proxy = http://[Proxy_Server]:[port]

For more information, https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-use-wget-to-download-file-via-proxy/

Ligni

Answer 11

Start Wget through a SOCKS5 proxy using tsocks:

1. install tsocks: sudo apt install tsocks

2. configure tsocks

   As root:

   vi /etc/tsocks.conf
   

   Add:

   server = 127.0.0.1
   server_type = 5
   server_port = 1080
   

3. start: tsocks wget http://url_to_get

Bukharin

SOCKS server is not on a local subnet! failed: Connection refused. – Hoebart

wget: unable to resolve host address ‘google.com’ – Kassiekassity

Answer 12

In Windows - for Fiddler say - using environment variables:

set http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8888
set https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8888

Counterinsurgency