Using the cURL package isn't the only way to download a file. You can also use the wget command to download any URL.
wget https://davidwalsh.name/ -O davidwalsh.name.txt
I'm guessing that wget and cURL aren't the only ways to download a file, but these are two easy ways to do so.
Also, look forward to more posts featuring wget -- it has a plethora of uses!
One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog. This "lightbox" isn't like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much." With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox...
As much as developers now loathe Flash, we're still playing a bit of catch up to natively duplicate the animation capabilities that Adobe's old technology provided us. Of course we have canvas, an awesome technology, one which I highlighted 9 mind-blowing demos. Another technology available...
One of the reasons I love the Dojo Toolkit is that it seems to have everything. No scouring for a plugin from this site and then another plugin from that site to build my application. Buried within the expansive dojox namespace of Dojo is
Without a doubt, my least favorite form element is the SELECT element. The element is almost unstylable, looks different across platforms, has had inconsistent value access, and disaster that is the result of multiple=true is, well, a disaster. Needless to say, whenever a developer goes...
Ahh yes, wget and cURL are soon becoming my most used utilities. Very great programs.
It is a little trickier but you can also download flash videos on sites that allow you to buffer, like YouTube. I havn’t yet been able to download flash videos that only allow streaming, like hulu.
Using wget to Download Youtube Videos
Why would you use something like that to download a page?
@xpix,
You would use something like that to download a page for processing. Through a script.
For example if you wanted to automatically get the latest ISO of a Linux distro you could set up a cron job to check for updates every single day and download the latest version through wget.
You could use wget to download a stats page, run a regular expression and print out certain pieces.
Another example, you can use it to interact with almost all of Google’s services.
The above code would post a new album to your picasa web albums.
The possibilities are limitless.
So what does Cygwin have to do with any of these posts?
@Anon: I use Cygwin on my Windows computer. Obviously, you don’t need Cygwin if you run Linux.
Or the Mac OS, or any flavor of Unix, or ….
Thanks for the answer Mark.
I am building quite simple application and I never felt the need to to do any of that.
I’ve used both wget and curl for downloading jobs, never found any difference between the two.
@Not Me:
Not though that Mac OS X (atleast 10.5 Leopard, and maybe 10.6) does not support the wget command by default.
You have to install
* XCode Developer Tools (do not untick “UNIX” in the install) version 3.1.4 (for Leopard) or 3.2 (for Snow Leopard)
* MacPorts 1.8.2 (as of writing) for Leopard and another version for Snow Leopard
* and then install the wget-command into that.
Tho the above will open a lot of possibilities, it’s not unfair to say that it’s a pain to do all that to get to 1 specific applicatoin :-(
(for allya Googlers:
– Get a free account at the Apple Developer Connection and download the xCode Developer Tools (if you’re using Leopard, you’ll notice the version on the ADC-site is by default 3.2 for Snow Leoaprd, read here ( http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-darwin-development/165766-xcode-leopard.html#post901636 ) to know how to get the old Leopard version
– Then http://macports.org/ should get you going towards MacPorts and http://wget.darwinports.com/
PS: DarwinPorts is the old name of MacPorts. Some tools still refer to DarwinPorts.
—
TeMc
If a URL forces you to download a CSV file, how do we use PHP to download that onto a folder in the sever?