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Terminal - Commands using wget - 237 results

wget -nd -r -l 2 -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif http://website-url.com

2012-01-27 11:06:50

User: unixmonkey26318

Functions: wget

Tags: wget download images

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Download all images from a website in a single folder

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wget -U Mozilla http://example.com/foo.tar.gz

2012-01-18 05:47:14

User: sugy

Functions: wget

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wget - 403 Forbidden Error

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for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-$[^-]\+$-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "$[^"]\+$",.*/\1/' ...

2012-01-06 20:26:11

User: fpunktk

Functions: echo read wget

Tags: bash ImageMagick sed identify convert xkcd

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add title and alt-text to your collection of xkcd comics

full command:

for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do; echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-\([0-9]\+\)-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "\([^"]*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; at="$(sed 's/.*alt": "\(.*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; convert -background white -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf -pointsize 26 -size ${xw}x -gravity Center caption:"$tt" tt.png; convert -background '#FFF9BD' -border 1x1 -bordercolor black -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf -pointsize 16 -size $(($xw - 2))x -gravity Center caption:"$at" at.png; th=$(identify -format '%h' tt.png); ah=$(identify -format '%h' at.png); convert -size ${xw}x$(($xh+$th+$ah+5)) "xc:white" tt.png -geometry +0+0 -composite $fn -geometry +0+$th -composite at.png -geometry +0+$(($th+$xh+5)) -composite ${fn%\.*}_cmp.png; echo -e "$fn $nn $xw $xh $th $ah \n$tt \n$at\n"; done

this assumes that all comics are saved as xkcd-[number]-[title].{png|jpg}.

it will then download the title and alt-text, create pictures from them, and put everything together in a new png-file.

it's not perfect, but it worked for nearly all my comics.

it uses the xkcd-json-interface.

though it's poorly written, it doesn't completely break on http://xkcd.com/859/

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wget -O chart.png 'http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=250x100&chd=t:60,40&cht=p3&chl=Hello|World'

2011-12-10 18:03:16

User: kev

Functions: wget

Tags: google api

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google chart api

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wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -

2011-11-30 08:30:35

User: DamirX

Functions: wget

Tags: Network curl ip address

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Get your external IP address

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url="put_url_here";audio=$(youtube-dl -s -e $url);wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame - > "$audio.mp3"

2011-11-15 19:09:52

User: o0110o

Functions: wget

Tags: youtube mp3

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Convert Youtube videos to MP3

Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

wget -A mp3,mpg,mpeg,avi -r -l 3 http://www.site.com/

2011-11-09 10:06:07

User: kev

Functions: wget

Tags: wget

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recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi

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tpb() { wget -U Mozilla -qO - $(echo "http://thepiratebay.org/search/$@/0/7/0" | sed 's/ /\%20/g') | grep -o 'http\:\/\/torrents\.thepiratebay\.org\/.*\.torrent' | tac; }

2011-10-26 12:15:55

User: Bonster

Functions: echo grep sed wget

Tags: bash download api url torrent torrents pirate thepiratebay piratebay ash

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ThePirateBay.org torrent search

usage: tpb searchterm

example: tpb the matrix trilogy

This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order,

so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

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geoip() { wget -qO - http://freegeoip.net/xml/$1 | sed '3,12!d;s/<//g;s/>/: /g;s/\/.*//g' ; }

2011-10-25 21:07:08

User: vando

Functions: sed wget

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geoip information

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wget -b http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r14-linux.tgz

2011-10-19 21:55:25

User: zlemini

Functions: wget

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background a wget download

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expandurl() { wget -S $1 2>&1 | grep ^Location; }

2011-10-18 18:50:54

User: atoponce

Functions: grep wget

Tags: wget

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Expand shortened URLs

This shell function uses wget(1) to show what site a shortened URL is pointing to, even if there are many nested shortened URLs. This is a great way to test whether or not the shortened URL is sending you to a malicious site, or somewhere nasty that you don't want to visit. The sample output is from:

expandurl http://t.co/LDWqmtDM

wget -O - -q http://whatismyip.org/

2011-10-15 11:36:56

User: ztank1013

Functions: wget

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Get your external IP address

This just output your external IP, no extra characters at the end of line.

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wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][cripted]=1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1" http://md5-decrypter.com/ | grep -A1 "Decrypted text" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'

2011-10-13 03:48:54

User: samhagin

Functions: cut grep sed tail wget

Tags: md5

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Decrypt MD5

Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt

wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][clear]=text" http://md5-encryption.com | grep -A1 "Md5 encrypted state" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'

2011-10-13 03:44:48

User: samhagin

Functions: cut grep sed tail wget

Tags: md5

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Encrypt text to md5

Encrypt any text to MD5 , replace text with the string you want to convert to MD5

wget -qO- "http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=163856011" | grep Daily | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/\&[^;]*;/ /'

2011-10-06 20:27:02

User: winsbe01

Functions: grep sed wget

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AmazonMP3 Daily Deals

grabs and prints the AmazonMP3 daily album deal

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wget -nd -nH -r -A pdf -I library/mac/documentation/ http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Reference

2011-10-02 04:56:25

User: GinoMan2440

Functions: wget

Tags: mac os x

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Get all the reference docs for OS X from Apples Developer Connection site

download every last pdf reference Doc from the Apple Developer Connection, takes a half hour on a fast connection. enjoy!

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wget http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/e7__7dal

2011-09-30 09:40:29

User: e7dal

Functions: wget

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dont forget commands of old profile

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wgetall () { wget -r -l2 -nd -Nc -A.$@ $@ }

2011-09-28 09:43:25

User: peterRepeater

Functions: wget

Tags: wget mp3 download file format

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Download all files of a certain type with wget.

Recursively download all files of a certain type down to two levels, ignoring directory structure and local duplicates.

Usage:

wgetall mp3 http://example.com/download/

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wget http://tools.web4host.net/versions.tmp --quiet -O - | grep PHPMYADMIN | sed 's/PHPMYADMIN=//' | cat

2011-09-22 04:11:44

User: wr8cr8

Functions: grep sed wget

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Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin

This is to get the latest version of phpMyAdmin to support scripts to download the latest version of the software if they want to automatically update.

p=$(echo "hello world, how r u?"|sed 's/ /+/g');wget -U Mozilla -q -O - "$@" translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en\&q=$p|mpg123 -

2011-09-19 23:06:15

User: jhansen

Functions: echo mpg123 sed wget

Tags: google google api speech text-to-speech text to speech

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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

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wget -O - -q http://www.chisono.it/ip.asp && echo

2011-09-18 15:38:02

User: scanepa

Functions: wget

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Get your public IP using chisono.it

The echo at the end is for pretty printing as the output is just the IP address without any html

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wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-

2011-09-17 13:42:01

User: ztank1013

Functions: cut wget

Tags: wget ip address

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Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...

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wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - | grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'

2011-09-17 12:51:06

User: unixmonkey24730

Functions: grep wget

Tags: wget ip address

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Check your ip public using dyndns.org

curl -sm1 http://www.website.com/ | grep -o 'http://[^"]*jpg' | sort -u | wget -qT1 -i-

2011-09-10 19:21:13

User: kev

Functions: grep sort wget

Tags: wget

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download all jpg in webpage

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say() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; gnome-terminal -x bash -c "totem output.mp3"; sleep 4; totem --quit;}

2011-09-07 19:48:53

User: totti

Functions: bash sleep wget

Tags: google say text to speech

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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

No need to install additional packages

eg:

say hello

For multiword

say how+are+you

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