OpenEuphoria

Re: Batch downloads

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Sep 18, 2003
• 466 views

mhc> I'm trying to find a quick 'n' dirty solution to this problem:
mhc> There are about 1000 log files sitting on a remote http server in the 
mhc> format: "acct%06d.log" (numbered from 1 to 1000ish), that I want a copy of 
mhc> sitting in a local directory.
mhc> They change fairly regularly, so I need to get them on a regular basis - 
mhc> preferably each morning.
mhc> The machine that will do this doesn't have any telnet/ssh access (esp not 
mhc> anonymous), so an http get is the preferred method.

Sounds pretty simple... something like:

--pseudo code
for t=1 to 1000 do
    name = sprintf("acct%06d.log")
    text = get_url( URL & "\\" & name )
    save_as_local_file( text , name )
end for

You'll want to investigate PatRat's Asynchronous HTTP and Mark Smith's
WebShepherd, or just do a search of EUPHORIA's submitted files for
"http web."