Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread Eric Cope
you may be able to use a bash script with wget. Eric On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have a friend that does DJ work with a subscription to a closed music repository. In the repository there are 4 categories of music he wants to download with 4,000+

Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread James Finstrom
http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have a friend that does DJ work with a subscription to a closed music repository. In the repository there are 4 categories of music he wants to download

Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread Dan Dubovik
wget? If there are simply links on the page to get, you can use the recursive option: -r --recursive Turn on recursive retrieving. If you have a list of the URLs for the files to get: -i file --input-file=file Read URLs from file. If - is

Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread AZ RUNE
Yes once logged in they are just links on a page. Thanks, Brian On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Dan Dubovik dand...@gmail.com wrote: wget? If there are simply links on the page to get, you can use the recursive option: -r --recursive Turn on recursive

RE: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread Taylor, Kaia
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Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread Dan Dubovik
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Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread AZ RUNE
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Re: Coding a program to do mass downloading help

2010-05-19 Thread Joseph Sinclair
WGet works great, with a couple caveats: 1) When using wget, have something in the script check each download for sanity (size usually works, and if MP3, check that the first 3 bytes are ASCII for ID3). Someone I work with did a mass download like you're describing from a huge music company