Re: Saving files from the web
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- Subject: [mg111307] Re: Saving files from the web
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <i2btas$bao$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi, > I want to save some files from the web to the disk. I already > generated the list of strings with the urls of the files I want to > get, urlList, and I want them to keep the same names under the > directory stored in the variable "dir". But my difficulty is in > getting a file from the web and saving it to disk without Mathematica > interpreting anything about the format. FileCopy doesn't seem to work. > > Files are in zip, doc and pdf formats but I'm looking for a format- > independent way. Should be easy, just binary import-export, but it's > giving me a hard time. > > Any easy way to tell Mathematica to do this? You can use a second or third argument to Import and Export. I think this should work (I tested it with a pdf file from the web): Export[filename,Import[url,"Binary"],"Binary"] I'm not sure whether this code and using mathematica in general is the most effective way to solve this kind of problems, though... hth, albert