- From: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:06:14 +0900
- To: Jin B Yong <jy29+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Jin B Yong wrote:
>
> - i mean have netscape automatically open up at night
> - have it read off a file list of URL's to goto
> - goto each URL
> - download/copy and paste the data to the local machine by creating or
> appending the text on the URL webpage to a data/textfile on the
> harddrive.
>
> Is this possible at all???? Is it possible to do ANY PART of this?
> need java to do this or some software that does something similar???
Yes, this is possible, and no, you don't need to do it with Java,
and no, Netscape cannot accomplish this for you.
Get Lynx.
lynx -source http://server.site.dom/dir/file > myfile
will dump the contents of the URL "http://server.site.com/dir/file"
into a local file named "myfile".
To get this to happen at scheduled times like "at night", you can
use "cron" on a Unix system (try "man crontab").
Ping
3B Computer Engineering, Waterloo (on exchange in Tottori, Japan)
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Received on Thursday, 19 September 1996 21:10:45 UTC