How to automate downloading files?

Posted by Damon on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Damon
Published on 2012-04-30T02:51:22Z Indexed on 2012/09/06 21:42 UTC
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I got a book which had a pass to access digital versions of hi-res scans of much of the artwork in the book. Amazing! Unfortunately the presentation of all the these are 177 pages of 8 images each with links to zip files of jpgs. It is extremely tedious to browse, and I would love to be able to get all the files at once rather than sitting and clicking through each one separately.

archive_bookname/index.1.htm - archive_bookname/index.177.htm each of those pages have 8 links each to the files

linking to files such as <snip>/downloads/_Q6Q9265.jpg.zip, <snip>/downloads/_Q6Q7069.jpg.zip, <snip>/downloads/_Q6Q5354.jpg.zip. that don't quite go in order. I cannot get a directory listing of the parent /downloads/ folder.

Also, the file is behind a login-wall, so doing a non-browser tool, might be difficult without knowing how to recreate the session info.

I've looked into wget a little but I'm pretty confused and have no idea if it will help me with this. Any advice on how to tackle this? Can wget do this for me automatically?

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