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Creating variable URLs & Other Expressions

MacAttack85

MacAttack85

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It would be very simple to make Excel do this, and if you don't own that I expect OpenOffice's spreadsheet could also be pressed into duty.

Alternately, if you're even vaguely familiar with any scripting language, it would take almost nothing to print a string, increment a variable by one, and repeat a few hundred thousand times. Of course, if you're not familiar with a scripting language, learning enough of one to do this would probably have been much faster than searching for a tool for days.
 
Here's a small Perl script. Just copy and paste it into a file, save it with whatever name. Then from Terminal it will output those URLs. It's currently set to 20, but you can increase that to 300,000.
PHP: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $i = 1;
while ($i++ <= 20) {
  print "http://www.abc.com/pass.php?user=$i&d=1\n";
}
Run from Terminal,
Code: 
perl ~/Desktop/nameOfFile.pl
If you want to save the output to a file,
Code: 
perl ~/Desktop/nameOfFile.pl > ~/Desktop/output.txt
 
Thank you so much for your help. You seem to know what you are talking about. However, I can't seem to get it to work.

I copied your Perl Script, saved it as plain text and with the extension .php

Code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
my $i = 1; 
while ($i++ <= 20) { 
  print "http://www.abc.com/pass.php?user=$i&d=1\n"; 
}


Opened terminal
Code: 
perl ~/Desktop/nameOfFile.pl

Created the output file
Code: 
perl ~/Desktop/nameOfFile.pl > ~/Desktop/output.txt

With the ~, do I put my user name? and is the pl the perl extension.

Thank you for your help 🙂
 
MacAttack85 said:
Finally found a resource that people can use

http://www.samliew.com/Resources/Downloads/Programs/URLGenerator/index.html
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Wow, glad to find my scripts are helpful! I made this script previously to help me generate links to download movie files from funnyplace.org, as their filenames were sequential, but they have since changed. Now I have a greasemonkey (Firefox plugin) script to grab the download link instead. See: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/54829

For other generators and games that I made, visit my programming page at http://www.samliew.com/programming.php
If you have a problem that could possibly be solved by scripting, do let me know as I love a challenge! (contact me via my site)

All the best!
 
Glad I found it. Worked perfectly

Is there anyway you can open 300,000 urls at once without opening them in tabs and crashing my browser 😀

That would be a challenge. I can open and create about 350 in tabs before Safari crashes
 
MacAttack85 said:
Glad I found it. Worked perfectly

Is there anyway you can open 300,000 urls at once without opening them in tabs and crashing my browser 😀

That would be a challenge. I can open and create about 350 in tabs before Safari crashes
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Possible to create a PHP version where you get to download a text file with the URLs instead, but I never tried before.
 
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