wget

[Jason Shein]

On Friday 26 May 2006 16:15, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> I am trying out wget to do unattended downloads by attempting to
> retrieve a series of video files, but it fails because it first tries
> to download the index.html file which - in this particular case - the
> directory does not have.
>
> The situation:
>
> If I point Firefox to http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/ I
> get a blank page... I take this to mean there is no index.html file at
> this location?
>
> If I use wget to download a single video file from this location:
>
> wget \
> http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/ocw-7.012-lec-mit-10250-22oct2
>004-1000-220k.rm
>
> ...it works as expected.
>
> But I would like to know how to use wget to download *all* the video
> files of a certain compression size with a single command. I checked
> the manpage and used the "-A" option to specify a filetype, using this
> command:
>
> wget -A "*220k.rm" http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/
>
> ...which returns the following error...
>
> --16:10:53--  http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/
>            => `index.html'
> Resolving ocw.mit.edu... 209.123.81.89, 209.123.81.96
> Connecting to ocw.mit.edu|209.123.81.89|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 16:10:53 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> How do I manage to setup wget to ignore the fact that there is no
> index.html at this location, and just download the *.rm files I
> requested? wget would be a perfect tool for downloading a series of
> files like this unattended vs. downloading each file by hand
> one-by-one... Thanks in advance for any help.

If you are using firefox, first install the download-them-all extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/

Then go here:
http://oops.editme.com/IntroductionToBiology

Right click on the page and select "Download them all..."

Go to the "additional filters" and add 220k.rm as an extension.

And download away!

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http://oops.editme.com/listofcourses

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