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	Automated downloads using "wget"

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3-19-2007 2:59 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fef956e6-5bfa-4498-a1b0-36db83fac837/8F6A6363-8F66-4C14-94C1-F5D6EBCD81AC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://chiranth.blogspot.com/2007/02/crawling-web-data-using-wget.html" href="http://chiranth.blogspot.com/2007/02/crawling-web-data-using-wget.html" style="font-size: 11px;">chiranth.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chiranth.blogspot.com/2007/02/crawling-web-data-using-wget.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">For our project, we wanted to download the html files for all the cars listed on the site – we’re talking about 17,000 files here. <SPAN> </SPAN>If you find yourself in a similar situation, chances are you would not want to save each page manually – even if you can save 15 pages a minute, it’d take you 18 hours to save 17000 web pages.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Whew!<O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></P>      <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><SPAN>wget</SPAN> provides a smarter solution.<SPAN>  </SPAN>From <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget’s website</A>,</SPAN><EM><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P><BR /></SPAN></EM></P><BLOCKQUOTE><P class="MsoNormal"><EM><SPAN lang="EN-GB">GNU Wget is a <SPAN>free software</SPAN> package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.</SPAN></EM></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8F6A6363-8F66-4C14-94C1-F5D6EBCD81AC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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