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Questions tagged [downloading-website-files]

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wget not recognized as internal or external command

I am working on a program to auto update my game as I make new developments and add new patches. When I go to run the patch update it doesn't recognize wget as a internal or external command. Game: :Checkforupdates cls cd C:\AirlineSim\ …
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How to download pdf files using Python?

I was looking for a way to download pdf files in python, and I saw answers on other questions recommending the urllib module. I tried to download a pdf file using it, but when I try to open the downloaded file, a message shows up saying that the…
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Download filename in HTML5 video element

Does anybody know how to set the filename of html5
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Downloading a portion of a File using HTTP Requests

I am trying to download a portion of a PDF file (just for testing "Range" header). I requested the server for the bytes (0-24) in Range but still, instead of getting first 25 bytes (a portion) out of the content, I am getting the full length…
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Downloading large batch of files, want a way to skip files that already exist in case download times out

I am downloading CMIP6 data files using this code: #install.packages("epwshiftr") library("epwshiftr") #this indexes all the information about the models test = init_cmip6_index(activity = "CMIP", variable = 'pr', …
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Best way to download all images from a site using Java? Currently getting an 403 Status Error

I am trying to download all the images off of a site, but I'm not sure if this is the best way, as I have tried setting a user agent and referrer to no avail. The 403 Status Error only occurs when trying to download the images from the src page,…
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Python 3 web scraping with selenium : ui-dialog trouble with switching

I'm a student and new to Python. I would like to download pdf files (these are financial reports from different organizations) from a website, but before this I have to go through some steps. Here's the website that I'm dealing with:…
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Why does my file download link seem to work, but is unable to find the file?

I added this HTML to a page that I render via a REST call: StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); . . . builder.Append("

"); builder.Append(""); builder.Append("

"); . .…
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php & cURL start giving data to browser withut waiting to read all?

Hi i'm trying to downlaod a file in my browser via proxy script on my web server. The code on webserver is:
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cURL takes long time to start download

I'am trying to download a file (1GB) on server C via server B, which has the code: header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=How to Use Git and GitHub Videos.zip"); header("Content-type:…
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How to click and select download audio file using selenium and python in chrome for this particular link

I was trying to download an audio file using selenium, python and Chrome browser from url: audio file. (Note: Please use headphones as the audio plays automatically and open the file using chrome browser). But when I used Inspect element on the…
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Content downloading(CSS, JS etc) taking too much time which making loading too slow

I am working on a spring framework project optimization. Its taking 2 minutes+ to load. When I checked in Network console, it was js, css content download which were the main reason. 200KB file taking 2 minutes to be downloaded. Every 1KB taking 2-8…
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Do we need to catch the return value of AsyncTask?

I have written an Async task below public class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask{ @Override protected String doInBackground(String... urls) { String result = ""; HttpsURLConnection…
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Downloading files from protected website with VBA-Excel

I'm trying to download a file from a protected webpage (from my job, so I cannot post the url). When I save the bytes (I'm using a WinHTTP request), in an .xls, the file appears to be corrupted. My code (without sensitive information) and a little…
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How to download a file with a temporary or indirect link in python 3?

I have been trying to download files from a site that changes the download links after some time. I tried using wget module to download those files. It does work on the direct links to file like(http://example/file.zip) but it doesn't download files…
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