Re: Downloading a file from the internet with a URL
Re: Downloading a file from the internet with a URL
- Subject: Re: Downloading a file from the internet with a URL
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 13:19:43 +0200
For those interested, if you need to download some html file, you can use Smile's readtext command, like in:
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writetext (readtext "https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/HT1582";) to "/Users/emmanuel/Desktop/downloaded-file.html"
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Best,
Emmanuel
On May 13, 2016, at 1:58 AM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>
>>
>> Note that the curl script will download one file, if you want the
>> pictures or other kind of files, you have to find them and download them
>> separately.
>>
>
> That's good to know. In this case I'm simply downloading zip files and
> pdfs, so all I need is the one file with each download.
>
>
> Here's the handler I'll be using, with handler calls:
>
>
> set fileToDownload to "https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/HT1582";
> set localPath to "/Users/user/myLocalFileName6.html"
> DownloadFile(fileToDownload, localPath)
> set localPath to "/Users/user/myLocalFileName7.html"
> DownloadFile(fileToDownload, localPath)
> set localPath to "/Users/user/myLocalFileName8.html"
> DownloadFile(fileToDownload, localPath)
>
> on DownloadFile(fileToDownload, localPath)
> set fileToDownload to quoted form of fileToDownload
> set quotedlocalPath to quoted form of localPath
> set downloadShell to "curl " & fileToDownload & " >> " & quotedlocalPath
> set shellResult to do shell script downloadShell
> delay 2
> tell application "System Events" to set localPath to POSIX file
> localPath as alias
> tell application "Finder" to reveal localPath
> return localPath
> on error errMsg
> return errMsg
> end try
> end DownloadFile
>
>
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