Got it. Thanks to all who gave suggestions! The simplest for me to implement was Danny Escasa's. I just needed to quote the url, using wget.
A peaceful Holy Week to all! Obet On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:27:56 +0800 Daniel Escasa <[email protected]> wrote: > Sabi ni Obet noong Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:45 AM: > > The output of the url below is a .CSV file (hourly-updated > > electricity demand for Luzon). > > > > http://wesm.ph/chart/export/luzon_dmd_csv_export.php?date=20150403&hour=10 > <http://wesm.ph/chart/export/luzon_dmd_csv_export.php?date=20150403&hour=10> > > > > This url is triggered when I click on a button online. > > > > What I want to do is to download the resulting .csv file using wget. > > > > But I keep getting an empty .csv file when using wget (I've tried > > several suggestion I got on the Web). I know a .csv file is > > generated somewhere because I get it when I click the CSV button > > online. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Worked on my FreeBSD partition. Also worked on my GNU/Linux partition, > just tested it so's I don't have to convince you to install FreeBSD :) > > Note that the URL contains *two* characters that the shell treats > differently. You'll have to either escape them or enclose the URL in > quotation marks, i.e: > > wget " > http://wesm.ph/chart/export/luzon_dmd_csv_export.php?date=20150403&hour=10"; > > Here's the result I got: > > cat "luzon_dmd_csv_export.php?date=20150403&hour=10" > HOUR,LUZDEM_DAPEL,LUZDEM_RTDEL,LUZDEM_RTXEL,LUZLWAP_DAPEL,LUZLWAP_RTDEL,LUZLWAP_RTXEL > > 1,4770.1,4784.2,4775.3,1342.27,1409.69,1410.26 > 2,4411.5,4656.9,4624.7,44694.41,1632.39,1631.04 > 3,4248.6,4468.1,4474.6,46206.81,1625.77,1626.42 > 4,4150.9,4377.8,4300.2,47164.91,1449.69,1337.38 > 5,4277.8,4258.8,4188.5,1174.85,1174.34,1173.2 > 6,3864.1,4005.2,3981.3,49548.6,382.99,249.36 > 7,3704.3,3860.9,3897.2,51694.22,0,204.11 > 8,3825.3,4024.3,3982.9,58371.16,206.72,204.79 > 9,4158.1,4176.1,4169.1,516.84,518.46,508.79 > 10,4130.6,4343.2,,55169.33,810.06, > 11,4265.5,,,53617.68,, > 12,4259.4,,,53636.83,, > 13,4410.7,,,52419.85,, > 14,4481.8,,,51478.37,, > 15,4448.4,,,51734.69,, > 16,4339.4,,,51543.17,, > 17,4226.3,,,52604.57,, > 18,4361.7,,,51920.13,, > 19,5050.8,,,56180.15,, > 20,5148,,,55239.16,, > 21,5234.5,,,54377.99,, > 22,5352.8,,,53303.8,, > 23,5186.6,,,55145.97,, > 24,4915.6,,,49970.37,, > > One other thing: I was too lazy to set an output file with -O > *output-file*. > > > Sometimes you don't need a script :) > > *Daniel Escasa* > Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor > <http://google.com/+DanielEscasa> > <http://ph.linkedin.com/in/danielescasa> > <http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk> <http://facebook.com/silverlokk> > "Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, > and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person." > - François de la... > <https://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/463816/franois-de-la-rochefoucauld/why-can-we-remember-the-tiniest-detail-that-has-happened> > In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. > If we choose being kind over being right, we will be right every time. > Get a signature like this: > <http://ws-stats.appspot.com/r?rdata=eyJydXJsIjogImh0dHA6Ly93d3cud2lzZXN0YW1wLmNvbS8/dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1leHRlbnNpb24mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249cHJvbW9fNDUiLCAiZSI6ICJwcm9tb180NV9jbGljayJ9> > Click > here! > <http://ws-stats.appspot.com/r?rdata=eyJydXJsIjogImh0dHA6Ly93d3cud2lzZXN0YW1wLmNvbS8/dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1leHRlbnNpb24mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249cHJvbW9fNDUiLCAiZSI6ICJwcm9tb180NV9jbGljayJ9> _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
