Re: Mass download.
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 52468
interpreted = N
texte = Pedro Rivera wrote: > Hi guys, what's the best way to download a bunch of images with WebDNA? > > I have a couple of thousand of Yahoo! images on a website that I need to > download to our server. I have the path to the images in an XML document. > "is wrong tool. Never use this!" - Zathras in Babylon5 "War Without End" Part 1 Try using something that is designed to download files, rather than a development environment like WebCatalog. I would suggest that you check out wget (available for OS/X, Unix, and Windows). This can be used to parse a file of links and download them, in the background if desired. I would actually take your XML document and extract the link names and use the --input-file (and --force-html if the links are relative). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Pedro Rivera wrote: > Hi guys, what's the best way to download a bunch of images with WebDNA? > > I have a couple of thousand of Yahoo! images on a website that I need to > download to our server. I have the path to the images in an XML document. > "is wrong tool. Never use this!" - Zathras in Babylon5 "War Without End" Part 1 Try using something that is designed to download files, rather than a development environment like WebCatalog. I would suggest that you check out wget (available for OS/X, Unix, and Windows). This can be used to parse a file of links and download them, in the background if desired. I would actually take your XML document and extract the link names and use the --input-file (and --force-html if the links are relative). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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