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Article #416Re: Multi-file selection and download using HTTP?
From: eltan
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:42
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:42
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Several such as wGrabber, NetSpider, and Black Widow. wGrabber so far is the best and the easyiest. "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de... > G'day mates, > > One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web > page. Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a > time. This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other > work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc. > > It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- > maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-). > > Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or > command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of > thing, please? > > Only needs to be very simple. Bells and whistles not required; just > the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a > selected directory. > > Something that works under Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP would be great! > Failing that, just ME/XP would be good. And, failing that, just XP > would be acceptable. > > Thanks for your time. > > Cheers, Phred. > > -- > ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID >
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X-Google-Thread: 112049,f00357bbbc4a76be X-Google-Thread: 108c83,f00357bbbc4a76be X-Google-Thread: 104805,f00357bbbc4a76be X-Google-Thread: ff718,f00357bbbc4a76be X-Google-Attributes: gid112049,gid108c83,gid104805,gidff718,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail From: "eltan" <eltan@start.com.au> Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,aus.computers,alt.msdos.batch,alt.msdos.batch.nt Subject: Re: Multi-file selection and download using HTTP? Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:42:06 +1000 Organization: Netspace Internet Lines: 38 Message-ID: <ck94d0$ca6$1@otis.netspace.net.au> References: <2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-203-113-232-66.act.netspace.net.au X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1097340132 12614 203.113.232.66 (9 Oct 2004 16:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:42:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409