Trouble downloading pdf's
Trouble downloading pdf's
- Subject: Trouble downloading pdf's
- From: Jim Tinkham <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:10:31 -0500
I've been using the following script successfully to download pdfs from a couple of sites but now with a new site all I get are corrupt files.
activate application "Finder"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
keystroke command
end tell
end tell
tell application "FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced"
go to database "EZReprint"
delay 5
do script "Auto Find MBoC Content"
delay 5
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set the FMOut to file "MBoCurl.txt" of folder "Desktop" of home as alias
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
open FMOut
set cnt to count of (paragraph of the text of the front document)
set pages to {}
set fnames to {}
repeat with p from 1 to cnt
set rec to paragraph p of the text of the front document
set bg to 2
set o1 to offset of "," in rec
set ed to o1 - 2
set ppg to text bg thru ed of rec
set end of pages to ppg
set bg to o1 + 2
set o2 to length of rec
set ed to o2 - 2
set fnm to text bg thru ed of rec
set end of fnames to fnm
end repeat
quit
end tell
tell application "OmniWeb"
activate
delay 5
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the pages
set WebP to item i of pages
set DlPath to "/Users/mac101010/Desktop/MBoC/" & item i of fnames
if WebP is equal to "ABORTAUTO" then
else
tell application "OmniWeb"
GetURL WebP to DlPath
end tell
end if
end repeat
The filemaker script gives me a text file with the URL of the file to download and the file name to get. This is a sample line from that file;
"
http://www.mbc.org/cgi/reprint/22/1/54.pdf","MBoC_v_22_i_1_p_54.pdf"
Although it doesn't seem to be the main issue in this problem I do need to save the file to a more unique file name then what the site has to download. I've tried the script without the file rename and still get a corrupt file. I can only get a good file from this site if I let it download without the "to" part of the command.
I've been trying to do a similar get with FireFox or Safari and haven't found the magic combination.
Can anyone suggest a different way with OmniWeb or a workable way with either FireFox or Safari?
Thanks!!
Jim
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