Sorry, I didn't see that Steven has already answered the question. -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Schweda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 10:05 To: WGET@sunsite.dk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: simple wget question
From: R Kimber > What I'm trying to download is what I might express as: > > http://www.stirling.gov.uk/*.pdf At last. > but I guess that's not possible. In general, it's not. FTP servers often support wildcards. HTTP servers do not. Generally, an HTTP server will not give you a list of all its files the way an FTP server often will, which is why I asked (so long ago) "If there's a Web page which has links to all of them, [...]". > I just wondered if it was possible > for wget to filter out everything except *.pdf - i.e. wget would look > at a site, or a directory on a site, and just accept those files that > match a pattern. Wget has options for this, as suggested before ("wget -h"): [...] Recursive accept/reject: -A, --accept=LIST comma-separated list of accepted extensions. -R, --reject=LIST comma-separated list of rejected extensions. [...] but, like many of us, it's not psychic. It needs explict URLs or else instructions ("-r") to follow links which it sees in the pages it sucks down. If you don't have a list of the URLs you want, and you don't have URLs for one or more Web pages which contain links to the items you want, then you're probably out of luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
