Fast, flexible command-line programs for automating data handling tasks

Webget is a console program that can retrieve files from webservers or FTP servers, by passing the URL to the file on the command-line.  Webget can also post files using the POST method, automatically handle redirections, resume broken downloads, and record the details of the transaction with the remote server.  Webget is a useful tool for testing, diagnostics, and file-retrieval applications.

Html2Text converts HTML files into displayable text -- in milliseconds.  Perfect for both small and large applications:  for summarizing web pages, producing excerpts of pages, accurately detecting changes to pages, and more.

Crunch! is a command-line utility that removes unnecessary information from HTML files.  Crunch! strips unnecessary characters, tags, and comments from web pages, reducing page size by 10% to 50%.