Re: downloading from web
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.
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