Downloading files

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Roger Johansson

I found a site with lots of small zip files, of useful dlls and other files
often needed when installing a program.
It is http://www.iespana.es/tijuanahackers/Libreria.htm

Now I have been trying to download all those small zip files.
I have tried Intellitamper, Httrack and Sitesnagger, but none of them will
do what I want, they only copy html pages.

Does anybody know what program could be used to download all files
referenced in a html page, or a text file, I have the source code to the
page and it clearly shows all the url:s to the zip files.
 
Roger said:
I found a site with lots of small zip files, of useful dlls and other files
often needed when installing a program.
It is http://www.iespana.es/tijuanahackers/Libreria.htm

Now I have been trying to download all those small zip files.
I have tried Intellitamper, Httrack and Sitesnagger, but none of them will
do what I want, they only copy html pages.

Does anybody know what program could be used to download all files
referenced in a html page, or a text file, I have the source code to the
page and it clearly shows all the url:s to the zip files.
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FreshDownload can do this. My normal downloads are captured by
Stardownloader but for this kind of downloading I installed
FreshDownload.

After installing FD the option 'Download all by FD' is added to the
HTML context menu (all this when using IE, I don't know if it works
with other browsers).
 
Gert van der Kooij said:
FreshDownload can do this. My normal downloads are captured by
Stardownloader but for this kind of downloading I installed
FreshDownload.

After installing FD the option 'Download all by FD' is added to the
HTML context menu (all this when using IE, I don't know if it works
with other browsers).
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I downloaded and installed FD, including registering and all that.
There was some problems to get the integration to work, but I finally got
it to work in IE6.

The program is a little buggy. Maybe I gave it too many files to download,
but the program works and downloaded practically all those small zip files.

Thanks.
 
Roger said:
I found a site with lots of small zip files, of useful dlls and other files
often needed when installing a program.
It is http://www.iespana.es/tijuanahackers/Libreria.htm

Now I have been trying to download all those small zip files.
I have tried Intellitamper, Httrack and Sitesnagger, but none of them will
do what I want, they only copy html pages.

Does anybody know what program could be used to download all files
referenced in a html page, or a text file, I have the source code to the
page and it clearly shows all the url:s to the zip files.
Click to expand...
There is a plugin for Mozilla called Leech that will do it
 
ScRaPPs said:
Try WackGet, you can drag and drop links
http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
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But would I then have to drag and drop each link manually?

We are talking about 50 links on a web page here.
....

To Brian:

I don't use Mozilla so that plugin is not so hot no matter what features it
has, but thanks anyway.
....

I cannot believe there is no good solution to this problem.
I think I had a program years ago which could copy a web site, including
all small files, no matter what file format they were in.
I just cannot find such a program that really works at the moment.

Freshdownload works, but is a bit too buggy for my taste, and it is also
registerware.
 
Edit>select all>copy and past in to WackGet.
or highlight what you want download and drag and drop into Wackget
 
ScRaPPs said:
Edit>select all>copy and past in to WackGet.
or highlight what you want download and drag and drop into Wackget
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I have tried it now.

It is very slow.

I used the clipboard to feed it 17 links from the Tijuana hackers page.
Average file size 150k or so.
At first it was thinking hard for 30 seconds, doing nothing.
Then it started downloading, and it took 5 minutes to download a bunch of
files which Freshdownload fetched in 30 seconds or less.

I see no settings in it which could make it faster.
It also downloaded those files to its own directory, no setting for
download dir.

I am glad I didn't give it all 91 links on that page.
 
Roger Johansson said:
I cannot believe there is no good solution to this problem.
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I think I had a program years ago which could copy a web site, including
all small files, no matter what file format they were in.
I just cannot find such a program that really works at the moment.

Freshdownload works, but is a bit too buggy for my taste, and it is also
registerware.
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For a download manager, try Net Transport. Context menu entry:
"Download all by Net Transport".

For copying all files on the site, look at the Site Explorer
presentation of the links (tab on upper left).

For copying a website for offline browsing, how about WinHTTrack?

www.xi-soft.com
www.httrack.com

An aside. You (or rather others -- you've been around for awhile)
might also be interested in bookmarklets (favelets, etc. -- one line
Java scripts) such as "List Emails Links", "List All Links", and "List
Links" (for IE below - one long line) among many others.

Fortunately you don't have to write these. Some can be almost a page
of code. I've forgotten where I got this one, but I created it by
going to a site such as www.bookmarklets.com, copying a link, and
creating a new link (shortcut) in Favorites. Many sites include
Netscape (etc.) and sometimes Opera bookmarklets.

javascript:void(d=document);void(el=d.getElementsByTagName('a'));out='';for(i=0;i<el.length;i++){void(out=out+'<a
href='+el.href+'>'+el.innerHTML+'</a><br><br>\r\r')};d.outerHTML=el.length+'
link on the page<br><br>'+out;

BillR
 
For a download manager, try Net Transport. Context menu entry:
"Download all by Net Transport".
Click to expand...

I will try it.
For copying a website for offline browsing, how about WinHTTrack?
Click to expand...

I looked it up on the web and read that it is only for winxp and maybe
win2000, not for win98.
An aside. You (or rather others -- you've been around for awhile)
might also be interested in bookmarklets (favelets, etc. -- one line
Java scripts) such as "List Emails Links", "List All Links", and "List
Links" (for IE below - one long line) among many others.
Click to expand...

Yes, and I have a collection of bookmarklets somewhere.
But I often disable javascript so bookmarklets would work only sometimes.
I also use several different browsers, and installing bookmarklets in all
of them would take some time.

Thanks for the ideas, and I will try Net Transport.
 
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