Safari Download

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#1

Hi

Need some direction on this.

I would like to go to a website enter a specific fileneme into a search field click on a linked image after the search result and then click on a link to download the a hqx of the specified file.

Any help appreciated

Enya

#2

Not nearly enough information

#3

Ok:

Let me detail the manual process in downloading these files after logging in to website

  1. Enter a specific unique number in a search field i.e. CX234566 and hit search.
    –result: a page with the a thumbnail of the image which is a link to the download page of that image

  2. Click the thumbnail of the image.
    –result: a page with the HQX file download available

  3. Click the HQX file to start the download.
    –result; the file is downloaded to your computer

  4. Repeat.

Note: There is no process available for multiple downloads on this website.

Our subscription allows us full access to unlimited downloads from this website.

I have created a list of files I need to download.
My goal is to perhaps create a repeat loop and download the needed files from said list.

My need for direction is to what scripting approach I should take to achieve this purpose:
Safari, URL Scripting, Javascript.

Enya

#4

There is a load of options to do it. I would try using “curl” (the *nix command-line tool) and AppleScript, so you can run all the process in the “background”. Something as (follows pseudo-code):

set searchResults to (do shell script "curl 'http://www.site.com/search.php?str=XXXXXXXX'")

--> searchResults contains now HTML
--> parse it and find the next link

set downloadPage to (do shell script "curl " & quoted form of foundLinkInSearchResults)

--> now downloadPage contains HTML
--> parse it and find d/l link

do shell script "cd ~/Desktop; curl -o " & quoted form of finalDownloadURLHQX

--> this one downloaded the file to your desktop

Simply enclose in a repeat loop, and loop thru the list of search strings (XXXXXXX, YYYYYYYY, ZZZZZZZZZ…).

#5

Thanks JJ:

I’ll give it a try.

Enya