Re: Import files on accessible URL and save in local machine.
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- Subject: [mg122687] Re: Import files on accessible URL and save in local machine.
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:55:01 -0500 (EST)
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On Nov 5, 8:45 pm, Gy Peng <hitphy... at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mathematica friends, > > I want to Import some files stored on internet by: > > Import["http://url";, ...] > > This allow me to see the file in the notebook of mathematica. However, what > I want to do is to download and save the files in local machine. And since > I have may be hundreds or thousands files need to be download and save. Is > there any why in Mathematica to do it in a most optimized and fast way? > > And can read the file names in a single string in Mathematica like: > > { file1, file2, file3, file4, ...} > > How could I make a loop in Mathematica to download and save all of them in a same directory in local machine by Mathematica? > > I would thank you for all your kind reply and help!!!! if you want to download a lot of files and store them locally then use wget http://www.gnu.org/s/wget/ or curl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL etc. Mike