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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

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=450x200&cht=p3&chtt=Browser+Usage+on+Wikimedia&chl=IE%2834.2%%29|Firefox%2823.6%%29|Chrome%2820.6%%29|Safari%2811.2%%29|Opera%285.0%%29|Android%281.9%%29|Other%283.5%%29&chd=t:34.2,23.6,20.6,11.2,5.0,1.9,3.5

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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.

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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
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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

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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

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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.

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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
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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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