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Commands using wget

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wget `youtube-dl -g 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S3O9qi2E2U'` -O - | tee -a parachute-ending.flv | mplayer -cache 8192 -
2010-10-28 13:51:59
User: artagnon
Functions: tee wget
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Stream and save Youtube video

Watch a video while it's downloading. It's additionally saved to the disk for later viewing.

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wget -O xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`; eog xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png
2010-10-27 13:42:55
User: theanalyst
Functions: date grep wget
Tags: bash wget lynx curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

Just added view with the eog viewer.

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diff <(wget -q -O - URL1) <(wget -q -O - URL2)
2010-10-20 20:00:02
User: barwin
Functions: diff wget
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Diff remote webpages using wget
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svn co http://simile.mit.edu/repository/crowbar/trunk&& cd ./trunk/xulapp/ xulrunner --install-app && Xvfb :1 && DISPLAY=:1 xulrunner application.ini 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null && wget -O- "127.0.0.1:10000/&url=http://www.facebook.com"
2010-10-16 05:12:11
User: argv
Functions: cd wget
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Gecko-rendered javascript without a GUI

some other options:

&delay=1000

&mode=links

much more with piggybank as scraper

works well with your favourite curses or non-curses http clients

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ip2loc() { wget -qO - www.ip2location.com/$1 | grep "<span id=\"dgLookup__ctl2_lblICountry\">" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g; s/^[\t]*//; s/&quot;/"/g; s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&amp;/\&/g'; }
2010-10-13 00:19:35
User: bkuri
Functions: grep sed wget
Tags: bash locate geographical location ip address geoip
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Geolocate a given IP address

Grabs the ip2location site and removes everything but the span tag containing the country value. Place it inside your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file.

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wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'
2010-10-07 03:19:17
User: hunterm
Functions: grep sed tr wget
Tags: Linux sed wget tr counter
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Get the amount of currently registered users from i18n.counter.li.org.
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wget -O - 'https://USERNAMEHERE:PASSWORDHERE@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' --no-check-certificate
2010-09-26 14:47:13
User: PLA
Functions: wget
Tags: Linux wget xml gmail atom
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Using wget to receive an XML atom feed of your Gmail inbox

I use this command in my Conky script to display the number of messages in my Gmail inbox and to list the from: and subject: fields.

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wget -q $(lynx --dump 'http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/' | grep '\/.a\/' | grep '\-pi' | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}') -O geekandpoke.jpg
2010-09-07 12:15:36
User: tersmitten
Functions: awk grep head wget
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Get the latest Geek and Poke comic
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wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$
2010-09-03 15:13:10
User: unixmonkey11835
Functions: cut grep sed sort wget
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Get all links of a website
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wget -k -r -l 5 http://gentoo-install.com
2010-09-03 01:42:50
User: fecub
Functions: wget
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Downlaoad websites to 5 level and browse offline!

Download Websites to 5 Level and browse offline!

-k -> convert-links (to browse offline)

-r -> recursive download

-l 5 -> level 5

example.

http://gentoo-install.com

:-)

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translate() { echo $1: $(wget -q -O - 'http://www.google.de/dictionary?source=translation&q='$1'&langpair=en|de' | grep '^<span class="dct-tt">.*</span>$' | sed 's!<span class="dct-tt">\(.*\)</span>!\1, !'); }
2010-09-02 00:08:06
User: fpunktk
Functions: echo grep sed wget
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translate with google, get all translations

the google-api gives you only one translation which is sometimes insufficent. this function gives you all translations, so you can choose which one fits best.

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wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/
2010-08-28 09:23:42
User: kjell81d
Functions: cat cut grep head rm sort tar wget
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Download and install the newest dropbox beta
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xkcd() { wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash ; }
2010-08-25 15:44:31
User: John_W
Functions: bash sed wget
Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

To get a random xkcd comic use the following:

xkcdrandom() { wget -qO- http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash; }

These are just a bit shorter than the ones eigthmillion wrote, however his version didn't work as expected on my laptop for some reason (I got the title-tag first), so these build a command which is executed by bash.

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wget -k $URL
2010-08-21 17:39:53
User: minnmass
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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transform relative URLs (shoddy hack but it works)

The "-k" flag will tell wget to convert links for local browsing; it works with mirroring (ie with "-r") or single-file downloads.

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wget -qO - www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random | grep "<div class=\"command\">" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g; s/^[ \t]*//; s/&quot;/"/g; s/&lt;/</g; s/&gt;/>/g; s/&amp;/\&/g'
2010-08-12 23:58:24
User: smop
Functions: grep sed wget
Tags: random
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command line fu roulette

retrieves the html from a random command line fu page, then finds commands on the page and prints them

alternatively, pipe to bash (add "| bash" to the end) to execute the command (very risky)

edit: had to adjust to properly display the portion that replaces HTML characters (e.g. &quot; -> ")

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wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
2010-08-05 12:04:43
User: glaudiston
Functions: wget
Tags: ip address
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What is my public IP-address?

alternative to

curl ifconfig.me

for those that don't have curl

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wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
2010-08-01 13:36:08
User: berkes
Functions: sed wget
Tags: ip address
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What is my public IP-address?

Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location.

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wget http://www.whatismyip.org --quiet -O - | cat
2010-07-30 08:40:16
User: wr8cr8
Functions: wget
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Outgoing IP of server
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wget -qO - http://www.google.com | tee >(md5sum) > /tmp/index.html
2010-07-23 06:29:29
User: jianingy
Functions: tee wget
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download with checksum

other options:

* replace md5sum with sha1sum for SHA1 checksum

* replace '>' with '| tar zx' for extracting tarball

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wget --load-cookies <cookie-file> -c -i <list-of-urls>
2010-07-12 02:35:21
User: alriode
Functions: wget
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Downloads files (through wget) from a list of URLs using a stored cookie

Can use a cookie from Rapidshare, as created by the command on http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1756/download-from-rapidshare-premium-using-wget-part-1

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wget randomfunfacts.com -O - 2>/dev/null|grep \<strong\>|sed "s;^.*<i>\(.*\)</i>.*$;\1;"|cowsay -f tux
2010-07-01 18:31:36
User: unixmonkey10612
Functions: grep sed wget
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Lets Tux say the random fact. [add it to .bashrc to see it in new terminal window]
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wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]} ' | grep -v "^$"
2010-06-29 16:22:03
User: nikunj
Functions: awk grep wget
Tags: awk grep meta
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Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console

A Quick variation to the latest commands list with the new-lines skipped. This is faster to read.

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wget -qO- icanhazip.com
2010-06-24 03:49:14
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: wget
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address without curl

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :)

wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
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wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|zh-cn&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6
2010-06-05 18:49:59
User: unixmonkey10186
Functions: cut wget
Tags: clipboard xsel api google api
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translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal
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wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|en&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6
2010-06-04 17:20:17
User: fain182
Functions: cut wget
Tags: clipboard xsel api google api
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translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal

Uses google api to translate, you can modify the language in which translate modifying the parameter "langpair=|en", the format is language input|language output.

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