Re: downloading from web

From: Scott (angrykeyboarder_at_angrykeyboarder.com)
Date: 11/13/05

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    Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:40:28 -0700
To: BingYU <yubingem@gmail.com>, Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    BingYU wrote:
    > Thank God I find this message on the list
    > At the same time, I want push the question further.
    >
    > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:57:58PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
    >
    >>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:42:24PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
    >>
    >>>A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking
    >>>about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site
    >>>-- series like
    >>> http://foo.bat/onion/soup01.htm
    >>> http://foo.bat/onion/soup02.htm
    >
    > let say, we have *not* like this soup01.. 02 03
    > but we have onbaord.wmv someother.wmv
    >
    > I want to download the *.wmv files
    > http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/download-center/videos/
    >
    > I try to use
    > wget -c http://.../*.wmv
    > but it does not work
    >

    Did you try the suggestion that you quoted further down in this message?
    (see my comment after that).

    >
    >
    >
    >>> http://foo.bat/onion/soup03.htm
    >>> http://foo.bat/onion/soup04.htm
    >>>
    >>>and the like, in situations where the site did *not* allow
    >>>you to read the directory
    >>> http://foo.bat/onion/
    >>>
    >>>If it did allow such access, wget would obviously be the tool of
    >>>choice.
    >>>
    >>>I've tried looking in the archives for the message, but I can't find it.
    >>>I think the original poster wanted to download pictures, in case
    >>>it helps anyone remember.
    >>>
    >>>Anyway, I'd appreciate pointers to appropriate software
    >>>(or to the original message and responses).
    >>>
    >>
    >>I think you want curl. Likewise, this works:
    >>
    >>#!/bin/bash
    >>for i in `seq -w 1 10` ; do wget http://foo.bat/onion/soup$i.htm; done
    >>
    >>-Roberto
    >>--
    >>Roberto C. Sanchez
    >>http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

    Being that I know nothiung about scripting I rely on

    "DownThemAll!" ( http://downthemall.mozdev.org/) for such things. 

    -- 
Scott
www.angrykeyboarder.com
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