Dear Users! Please post bug reports about FDM here!

Schedule Downloads

Moderators: Usher, Alex

piercjs

Schedule Downloads

Postby piercjs » Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:22 pm

Hi,

I need to download a file from a website every day, my issue are
1) the filename has no extension (even though it is a pdf),
2) the directory that the file is in changes each day

for example,
- On Monday I want to download a file from a site, when I manually download it, the target path is http://www.someplace.com/120/ThisFile
- On Tuesday I want to download the same file from the same site, when I manually download it, the target path is http://www.someplace.com/121/ThisFile
- On Wednesday I want to download the same file from the same site, when I manually download it, the target path is http://www.someplace.com/122/ThisFile

I've tried the following:
1) scheduling a download of the file. this doesn't work because the URL changes as the Directory changes each day
2) Downloading All Files from the site and Filtering to exclude different extensions. As a lot of the files on the Site don't have extensions associated with them, I get a lot of rubbish that I don't want/need
3) Running a Batch download where I specify that the Range will be from 120 to 300 for example. I get the 1 file that I need but, 299 files that are empty also.

Is there any way to filter downloads based on either
- File size e.g. don't download if size < 20KB
- Keywork e.g. when selecting to download all items from a website, only download items with a specific word in their name

Thanks,

Return to “General forum”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 1 guest