Fundamentally, Wgit is a WWW indexer/scraper which crawls URL's, retrieves and serialises their page contents for later use. You can use Wgit to copy entire websites if required. Wgit also provides a means to search indexed documents stored in a database. Therefore, this library provides the main components of a WWW search engine. The Wgit API is easily extended allowing you to pull out the parts of a webpage that are important to you, the code snippets or images for example. As Wgit is a library, it has uses in many different application types.