Apple

I released a new beta.

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Hey Folks,

I usually use Progressive Downloader to download GraphicConverter (and its betas), because it does a better job of maxing-out my bandwidth than most methods. I got tired of manually doing this, so I wrote a script for the beta download (appended).

The script depends upon Safari to scrape the GC url, which works well for me since Safari is always running on my machine. The script also opens the correct page,

While I was at it I also wrote an alias for my bash profile, so I could easily do it from the Terminal as well.

alias dlgcb='cd ~/Downloads; URL="" -sL http://www.lemkesoft.org/beta.html | egrep -i "href="" | awk -F\" '\''{ print $2 }'\''`; curl --remote-name-all -L "${URL}"'

I took a quick look at the regular GC download page, and it should be easily possible to adapt this to download the production app. I might try to build in some intelligence, so the script checks the version of GC on the machine and only downloads if the file online is newer.

Best Regards,

Chris

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# Author: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>

# Created: 2012-09-07 : 03:16

# Modified: 2012-09-07 : 03:57

# Application: Safari & Progressive Downloader

# Purpose: Download GraphicConverter Beta

# Dependencies: None: Only stock OSX components used.

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--» HANDLERS

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on goGCBetaPage()

tell application "Safari"

make new document with properties {URL:"http://www.lemkesoft.org/beta.html"}

end tell

end goGCBetaPage

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on progressiveDownload(_referer, _linkList, _destination)

tell application "Progressive Downloader"

activate

repeat with i in _linkList

set _task to make new task

tell _task

set address to i

set referer to _referer

set destination to _destination

end tell

end repeat

if (count of tasks) > 0 then

resume every task

else

error "No Tasks in Progressive Downloader!"

end if

end tell

end progressiveDownload

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on safari_links(regexStr, tagName, tagType)

set js to "function in_array (array, item) {

for (var i=0; i < array.length; i++) {

if ( array[i] == item ) {

return true;}}

return false;}

var a_tags = document.getElementsByTagName('" & tagName & "');

var href_array = new Array();

var reg = new RegExp(/" & regexStr & "/i);

for (var i=0; i < a_tags.length; i++) {

var href = "" style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> & tagType & ";

if ( reg.test(href)) {

if ( !in_array(href_array, href)) {

href_array.push(href);}}}

href_array;"

try

tell application "Safari" to set linkList to do _javascript_ js in document 1

on error

set linkList to {}

end try

return linkList

end safari_links

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on safari_url()

tell application "Safari" to return URL of front document

end safari_url

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--» MAIN

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try

goGCBetaPage()

delay 0.2

set pageURL to safari_url()

set regexStr to "gc.*\\.dmg"

set linkList to safari_links(regexStr, "*", "href")

if linkList ≠ {} then

set linkList to item 1 of linkList as list

progressiveDownload(pageURL, linkList, POSIX path of (get path to downloads folder))

end if

on error e number n

set e to "Error: " & e & return & return & "Error Number: " & n

beep

tell me to set dDlg to display dialog e buttons {"Cancel", "Copy", "OK"} default button "OK"

if button returned of dDlg = "Copy" then set the clipboard to e

end try

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