get wget log message

[JuergenRiemer]

Hi,

I didn't succeed to do the following:
I download a PDF file via wget yet I am not interested in the file
itself but the wget verbose output (log message) e.g. download speed,
total size, etc.
I know I could use < -o log.txt > and then read from that file yet
this seems not very elegant.
I am new to both wget/linux and python and am struggling for quite
some time now, could anyone help me here?

 thx a lot
 Juergen