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How to combine wget and grep

I have a html-page url and I want to grep it. How can I do it by wget someArgs | grep keyword? My first idea was wget -q -O - url | grep keyword, but wget's output bypass grep and arise on the ...
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Chrome downloads 60 times slower than wget?

I just downloaded a large file (the KyngChaos PostgreSQL package, an 8.5MB file). In Chrome, it was downloading at less than 1KB/sec, and said it would take over an hour to arrive. When I tried ...
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wget: only download .listing file

when a download with wget and user the argument wget url --no-remove-listing I can save the .listing file. but, How I can download only the .listing file ?
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trying to download from autodesk with wget

I'm trying to download Autodesk investor fusion but the download keeps failing. I'm trying to download it using wget, but if i pass naively the url to wget, i'll get a 403 forbidden error. Tried with ...
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wget - only getting .listing file in every sub-dir

if I use the command "wget --no-remove-listing -P ...../debugdir/gnu// ftp:/gnu//" I will get the .listing file of that directory. But I have to step through each subsequent sub-directories to get the ...
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Difference between wget and browser file downloading

I have a direct link http://oocairo.naquadah.org/dist/oocairo-1.4.tar.bz2 And it's downloading fine throught chromium web browser. But throught wget $ wget ...
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Wget is silent, but it displays error messages

I want to download a file with Wget, but per the usual UNIX philosophy, I don't want it to output anything if the download succeeds. However, if the download fails, I want an error message. The -q ...
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How to automate downloading files?

I got a book which had a pass to access digital versions of hi-res scans of much of the artwork in the book. Amazing! Unfortunately the presentation of all the these are 177 pages of 10 images each ...
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How do just get a list of all links by using a recursive wget?

I would like to get a list of all of all of the links on a given webpage (recursively). I can't seem to find out how to do it without just going a wget -r . I don't want to save all of the junk, ...
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Avoid creating multiple files with wget

I use wget to call a link every 10 seconds like this: #/bin/sh while true; do wget http://www.some.random.link/to/some/PHP/script sleep 10 done This produces empty files called ...
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Why does wget not get all the pages when mirroring this site

I want to mirror the following web site completely: http://tinaztitiz.com I use the following wget command: wget -m http://tinaztitiz.com The web site is a custom CMS and contains lots of pages ...
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Why does `wget` download index.html instead of a direct file?

I'm just trying to download this, but it always redirect to the main page and in the end just download the index.html file, not the file I'm trying to download: ...
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Wget - if / else download condition?

I want wget to prefer a certain filetype over another, if the files have the same basename. For example: if foo.ogg available, don't download foo.mp3 the way i use wget so far to ...
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How to use wget to grab copy of Google Code site documents?

I have a Google Code project which has a lot of wiki'ed documentation. I would like to create a copy of this documentation for offline browsing. I would like to use wget or a similar utility. I have ...
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How to use Wget with Tor Bundle in Linux

I'm a Linux Mint (Lisa) and Tor Bundle user trying to use wget over Tor. After following the directions I found here, all I get when running wget is an output file saying, "514 Authentication ...
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Wget site mirror, links with rel=“<content>” not followed

Whilst creating a site mirror using wget 1.12 on Ubuntu links with a rel attribute set are not downloaded: <a href="link" rel="tag">text</a> Rel="tag" is a microformat (By adding ...
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Scraping new posts from a phpBB? [closed]

What is the best approach for scraping new posts from a phpBB? In other words, rather than manually going into phpBB looking for new posts periodically, I would like to run a script periodically ...
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Downloading only images using curl or wget?

UPDATED: I've found using this Bash script fixes the problem of having GIF files with a .jpg extension. I'm attempting to download images from a forum who's url uses the following format: ...
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Copy entire website including PHP and SQL?

Is it possible when copying an entire website and template using wget (httrack or other program) to also get the PHP code and the SQL database? What software would I need to copy/mirror a site like ...
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wget fails but opening in browser succeeds. How?

I was trying to download a pdf from the intel website at this address. When I open it through the browser(google-chrome) there seems to be no problem in viewing it or storing it on the my hard disk. ...
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Downloading with wget while not knowing the end index

i'm downloading some measurements with wget, which are in the form of http://www.somewhere.com/sub-somewhere052/image0001.jpg http://www.somewhere.com/sub-somewhere052/file0001.txt up to ...
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How to use delicious API from command line

I'm trying to add a delicious bookmark from a shell script, but keep getting the mysterious "something went wrong" error. I've checked the official spec and several examples and everything looks ...
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curl (7) permission denied on cgi script

Can't understand which permissions could be denied. Running cgi script from command line works fine. http_proxy="" curl http://url/ -o file Produces curl(7): permission denied (same issues with ...
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Download pages that I have to log in to get with wget

There's a website that I must log in to before I can browse the content, and the content would be very helpful for my work if I could browse it while offline. It's training and repair information for ...
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wget - download all files but not preceding folders

I'm using wget to download all files from within a folder using the -r and -np options. However this also downloads the preceding folders, which I don't want. For example: wget -r -np ...
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How I can download this directory?

Is it possible to download this entire directory with wget? How I can do that? This is the directory with the files that I want to download: ...
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How to use wget on a list of images

There's this beautiful boy who periodically uploads pictures of himself to his website. I am trying to automate the process of downloading these images to my computer. So far, I'm able to download ...
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How to set wget to timeout after downloading more than a fixed duration

I want wget to (attempt to) start downloading, then if isn't done after 10 seconds, I want it to give up. wget --timeout 10 http://url Seems like a reasonable try, but it seems like it only sets ...
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Submitting a form using curl

Forgive me for the simple question... I haven't used curl before. I'm trying to automatically download some data from this form: http://ida.water.usgs.gov/ida/available_records.cfm?sn=12040500 which ...
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Resuming Cancelled Download with WGET

Half-way through a 4GB download I accidentally rebooted the system. Upon loading back up, I had the sheer horror of realising I cancelled the bloody download because of it. I've booted my Ubuntu VM ...
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Using wget and manually assing Range header

I would like to download a range of a file which I have explicitly defined. As far as I know: wget --header="Range: bytes=1024-2048" http://www.example.com/file.tmp should run well. Yet, it ...
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Direct download location for MySQL Workbench?

I'm working on a bash script that installs various applications, and one of those is the latest version of MySQL Workbench. Since Workbench's presence (and version) in Linux repositories is ...
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Downloading multiple files with wget and handling parameters

How can I download multiple files using wget? I also want to rename the files. Here are the commands I'm running one by one (copy/paste on terminal): wget -c --load-cookies cookies.txt ...
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downloading files from filesonic via terminal with premium account

I am trying this guide for downloading files from filesonic http://n4p1.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/how-to-download-files-from-filesonic-com-premium-with-wget/ But not sure whats going on, file is ...
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How to configure wget to mass file download keeping the original filename

I have some problem configuring wget right for my needs, i have a file, named images.txt, containing a list of urls to required images, the command for wget is simple: wget -i images.txt however ...
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Install java on Linux through shell without apt-get

I'd like to run multicraft on one of my servers. After some intensive debugging/installing I realised the server didn't yet have a Java Runtime Environment. I figured it would be easy to install, but ...
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Downloads stall and won't resume

I have a shaped 384kbps ADSL connection (entry-level "broadband") with an ISP, which runs over the compulsory analog voice line provided by the only telephone provider in the country. "Shaped" means ...
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Scrape a site with curl/wget appending a parameter to each site

I need to scrape a website for all sites and append an Paramater, e.g. www.theSite.com/allpages?myPara=us Now what I got is wget --recursive to get all sites, but that doesn't append the parameter ...
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Will a wget process continue to run after administrator is logged out?

I logged into a Windows 2008 server via remote desktop as Administrator and started a wget process which will take 24 hours to download 29 files. If someone happens to log in during that time and ...
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Mutithreaded / multiprocess command line ftp client for Windows

I am searching for command line ftp client for Windows, capable of speeding up downloads by using multiple processes/threads. (Filezilla does it AFAIK, but it does not work from command line). Or ...
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Failed to continue 6.4GB download after 4.2GB already downloaded

I was trying to download a large iso (6,822,254,592 bytes). After 4,423,760,272 bytes (which is more than 4GB, so this isn't a simple 4GB limit problem) my network connection was interrupted for long ...
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Can't make wget reject/exclude files from a list

The problem is this, I have a file with a list of URLs, say links.txt: http://www.tipsfor.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/vim-editor-icon.png ...
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Download entire site for offline usage with wget (including external image servers)

OK, so I've got wget 1.12 on Windows 7, and I can do basic downloads of it. The site I'm trying to download: http://www.minsterfm.co.uk and all images on it are stored externally at ...
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wget - save all data (images) from given directory?

I want wget to scan for sub and sub-subdirectories of: domain.com/profile/username/albums/ Then grab every .jpg file from their sources. Wget should get files like: ...
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Where I can find the Windows build of wget 1.13.4?

I can't seem to find the latest version of wget easily using a Google Search. I'm looking for a Windows version that I can use, and no one seems to have it.
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How to Download Through POST using wget

If I have a URL similar to this: http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=11834 How do I download the file using wget? Everytime I try I always end up downloading the php file.
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wget - I can't download files with “?”

I wanted to download some tuts on aircrack by wget and I failed: wget -r 2 http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php\?id=tutorial\&DokuWiki=78e8249415a9ce232228ed8f9f02b9dd --2011-10-06 14:16:11-- ...
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Using wget with windows command prompt to download the files outside the site directory

I have to download files which are outside the my site directory using wget with windows let me make it more clear. I have my site running on Linux server. Domain ---> www.example.com ...
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How do you use WGET to mirror a site 1 level deep, recovering JS, CSS resources including CSS images?

Pretend I wanted a simple page copy to be downloaded to my HD for permanent keeping. I'm not looking for a deep recursive get, just a single page, but also any resources loaded by that page to be also ...
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How can I download a whole gallery of images using wget?

There is a gallery in the format: http:\\DOMAIN\file0001.jpg ⇒ http:\\DOMAIN\file0543.jpg How can I download them all using wget? How can I make it wait 2 seconds between downloads? i'm using ...

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