Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
Philip wrote:
I am using WGet under Windows XP to download files for our community
radio station. But these are files whose names are fixed.
Now here's a problem:
How can I tell WGet to download files whose names change each week.
Specifically:
The files are hosted at http://www.artistlaunch.com/alhourpub/
The filenames are in the format: The_Artistlaunch_Hour_-_02-26-06-1.mp3
<http://www.artistlaunch.com/alhourpub/The_Artistlaunch_Hour_-_02-26-06-1.mp3>
where the date element of the filename (in American date format), and
the segment number, changes every week.
There are four files to download, and I need to save each of the four to
its proper directory, which is q:\1ZZ music\artistlaunch\artist launch
1st (2nd,3rd,4th).
Here's what I tried in the batch file:
q:\W-Get\bin\wget.exe
-r--output-document=q:\1ZZMUS~1\ArtistLaunch\ARTIST~1\"The_Artistlaunch_Hour_-_??-??-06-1".mp3:http://www.artistlaunch.com/alhourpub/"The_Artistlaunch_Hour_-_??-??-06-1".mp3
It doesn't work.
Any ideas what would work?
All non-violent solutions gratefully received.
hi philip,
unfortunately HTTP does not allow wildcard characters, so you can't use
*, ?, etc., in the HTTP URLs you give to wget.
however, you can easily solve your problem with a simple script that
provides wget with the complete URLs.
Thaks for that, Mauro. I don't know how to do that -I'm betterat
programming radio stations than computers!. Can you point me to where I
could learn what I need to do and how to do it?
Philip
