On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2008, Tom Hughes wrote: > > Ben Laenen wrote: > > > I was wondering if it's possible to download data from the API in a > > > (bz2/g)zipped format? This would be much more kind to bandwidth > > > since a 10MB file for the plain data can be easily compressed to > > > under 1MB. > > > > It is compressed if your user agent indicates that it supports > > compressed transfers. > > Hmm, I was hoping more for some extra tag attached to the url... > > So, how should I do that when I use wget to download the data? I have > shell scripts to download data automatically and wget is by far the > easiest way to do that, but can't find any documentation for that.
You could do something with the --header=header-line option to wget or you can switch to curl which has a --compressed option. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
