Thanks everyone for the replies so far...... The problem I am having is that the customer is using ASP & Java script. The URL stays the same as I click through the links. So, using "wget URL" for the page I want may not work (I may be wrong). Any suggestions on how I can tackle this?
Thanks, Suhas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hrvoje Niksic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Suhas Tembe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: Re: Web page "source" using wget? > "Suhas Tembe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am new to this wget utility, so pardon my ignorance.. Here is a > > brief explanation of what I am currently doing: > > > > 1). I go to our customer's website every day & log in using a User Name & Password. > > 2). I click on 3 links before I get to the page I want. > > 3). I right-click on the page & choose "view source". It opens it up in Notepad. > > 4). I save the "source" to a file & subsequently perform various tasks on that > > file. > > > > As you can see, it is a manual process. What I would like to do is > > automate this process of obtaining the "source" of a page using > > wget. Is this possible? Maybe you can give me some suggestions. > > It's possible, in fact it's what Wget does in its most basic form. > Disregarding authentication, the recipe would be: > > 1) Write down the URL. > > 2) Type `wget URL' and you get the source of the page in file named > SOMETHING.html, where SOMETHING is the file name that the URL ends > with. > > Of course, you will also have to specify the credentials to the page, > and Tony explained how to do that. >
