Very basic Curl question

August 7, 2006 7:58 AM

Very stupid question. Can I use Curl to download every image in a directory? (some idiot, knowing we needed 100+ images, put them in some web gallery rather than on an FTP server and I'm stuck on a Mac here) How?
posted by Grod to computers & internet (9 comments total)

not exactly the answer to your question but you might be able to use this in firefox to pull everything.
posted by fidgets at 8:04 AM on August 7, 2006

You can use wget and do something like:

wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.jpg http://www.server.com/dir/
posted by null terminated at 8:13 AM on August 7, 2006

null terminated, yeah, except for the I'm stuck on a mac and wget is not part of package just curl
posted by Grod at 8:14 AM on August 7, 2006

If the Mac's running Tiger, you could whip up an Automator workflow to do it.
posted by toddshot at 8:19 AM on August 7, 2006

The page I linked to has wget compiled for mac.
posted by null terminated at 8:22 AM on August 7, 2006

null terminated, my bad, thanks a billion!
posted by Grod at 8:24 AM on August 7, 2006

I would use iCab for that kind of thing: iCab
posted by KimG at 9:21 AM on August 7, 2006

Check out wGETs and cURLs, it's a blog filled with examples of these kind of things.
posted by Sharcho at 6:38 AM on August 8, 2006

wget with a Mac front end - Deep Vacuum.
posted by dmo at 10:20 AM on August 8, 2006