From 3f160eab8e6ed93fb14189c80d2a7d3901c88f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Sweeting <git@sweeting.me>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:28:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] correctly handle WGET_AUTO_COMPRESSION failing when wget is
 missing

---
 archivebox/config.py | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archivebox/config.py b/archivebox/config.py
index d29cecd4..38ed5019 100644
--- a/archivebox/config.py
+++ b/archivebox/config.py
@@ -643,12 +643,15 @@ def find_chrome_data_dir() -> Optional[str]:
     return None
 
 def wget_supports_compression(config):
-    cmd = [
-        config['WGET_BINARY'],
-        "--compression=auto",
-        "--help",
-    ]
-    return not run(cmd, stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=DEVNULL).returncode
+    try:
+        cmd = [
+            config['WGET_BINARY'],
+            "--compression=auto",
+            "--help",
+        ]
+        return not run(cmd, stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=DEVNULL).returncode
+    except (FileNotFoundError, OSError):
+        return False
 
 def get_code_locations(config: ConfigDict) -> SimpleConfigValueDict:
     return {