got it! C:\>wget.exe -O file.txt "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget"; --2008-12-23 21:04:59-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 208.80.152.2 Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|208.80.152.2|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 61182 (60K) [text/html] Saving to: `file.txt'
100%[==============================================================================>] 61,182 107K/s in 0.6s 2008-12-23 21:05:00 (107 KB/s) - `file.txt' saved [61182/61182] C:\> Thanks! - Rich ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:57:37 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] maintinence script to append a new section to a page Never mind libwww-perl's GET, let's use the more well known wget: $ wget -O file.txt 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Not_Dead_Yet&action=raw' --2008-12-24 01:52:21-- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Not_Dead_Yet&action=raw Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 208.80.152.2 Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|208.80.152.2|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1732 (1.7K) [text/x-wiki] Saving to: `file.txt' 100%[======================================>] 1,732 --.-K/s in 0.04s 2008-12-24 01:52:22 (45.4 KB/s) - `file.txt' saved [1732/1732] Anyway, your mission is to save URLs like the above into a file. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
