Hi
I have a text file with a download link on each line. For instance:
http://www.whatever.com/fi
http://www.whoever.com/the
http://www.whichever.com/d
I have several hundred of these.
Rather than doing it manually (extremely time consuming), is there some program i can import the list into, and it download each file? None of the files on the list require a login, they're all public servers.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks
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Get hold of WGET:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforg
http://www.gnu.org/softwar
And then use a for loop to read the file using a batch file -- call it getfiles.cmd or something saved with notepad as "all files".
@echo off
cd /d c:\destinationpath
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type yourfile.txt') do wget %%a
There are MANY oprions to put on wget to do retries etc. as needed but try this for starters.
Steve
The FlashGet download manager can do this with no coding needed. Just run the program, and do File, Import, File List. Point it to your file with URLs in it, and it will download each for you. Simple and fast.
http://download.cnet.com/F
~bp
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by: Mystical_IcePosted on 2009-09-19 at 10:12:09ID: 25373712
just want to add, when i say i have several hundred of these, i mean i have several hundred LINES. one download link per line though