Looking for a way to download multiple web pages, images or other files from web sites without using a browser?
First, download and install
URL2File Windows Application, which is the program we'll be using in this example (
URL2File Windows Application is a product of
Chami.com). URL2File can retrieve and save the content of a given World Wide Web URL to a local file. So, to retrieve the web page at
http://www.chami.com/tips/ and save it to a local file named
tips.htm, run the following command from a Windows Command Prompt/DOS Box:
URL2File http://www.chami.com/tips/ tips.htmNote the format of the above command:
URL2File followed by the web page/file address and the name of the file that you want to save the content as.The next step is to create a batch file that can call URL2File for eachfile you need to download. A Windows batch file is a text file with alist of commands, usually with the
.BAT extension.Let's assume that there are three files named
file1.zip,
file2.zip and
file3.zip at
http://www.chami.com/tips/ that you need to download. To create a batch file to download above files:
- Open Windows Notepad
- Enter following three commands into the blank notepad (one command per file to be downloaded):URL2File http://www.chami.com/tips/file1.zip file1.zip
URL2File http://www.chami.com/tips/file2.zip file2.zip
URL2File http://www.chami.com/tips/file3.zip file3.zip
- Save the notepad file with a name of your choice followed by .BAT ("download.bat" for example)
Now run "download.bat" from your Windows Command Prompt/DOS Box by typing:
downloadand hitting ENTER. The newlycreated batch file will call URL2File three times for each of the threefiles and sequentially download them for you. To download other files,simply modify the batch file and run it again.
taken from http://www.chami.com/tips/windows/062598W.html
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