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macOS Downloading a collection of images from a website, what language?

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hdawg87

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Hi everybody,

I'm trying to write an application that will go to a URL of an image and download it into a folder on my hard drive with a specific filename. This will be done over 1000 times with different URL's. My problem is that I will need the url's to be stored in some kind of array and called from that. What language would I be able to do this the easiest? I'm not worried about developing a GUI or anything for this right now. Would applescript be able to accomplish this adequately?

P.S I'm running on a G5 dual 2.0ghz 3gb ram, tiger

Thanks in advance
 
shell, 100%. I do this every time i find a new web comic and want to grab the whole archive. There's generally a need to generate dates, and out of laziness i tend to do this with C or something.

Otherwise, it's all curl/wget, to grab the page itself, then some awk/grep to parse out the image URL, then another wget to grab the image.

I'm sure it's possible to do this in any number of ways, but I think it would be much more complex.

-Lee
 
hdawg87 said:
Hi everybody,

I'm trying to write an application that will go to a URL of an image and download it into a folder on my hard drive with a specific filename. This will be done over 1000 times with different URL's. My problem is that I will need the url's to be stored in some kind of array and called from that. What language would I be able to do this the easiest? I'm not worried about developing a GUI or anything for this right now. Would applescript be able to accomplish this adequately?

P.S I'm running on a G5 dual 2.0ghz 3gb ram, tiger

Thanks in advance
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sounds like a job for perl
 
hdawg87 said:
Hi everybody,

I'm trying to write an application that will go to a URL of an image and download it into a folder on my hard drive...
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Write it in anything that is able to call "wget". Pick the script language that you know best.
 
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