How to use a username and password with wget.

Introduction

There are times when you may want to use a username and password with wget to download a page. wget has built-in switches to handle both the username and password.

Procedure

To specify a username and password, use the --user and --password switches. This can be shown in the following example:

wget --user user --password pass http://example.com/

The man page for wget can be found below:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/wget