On March 23, 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: > An example of a mass downloader included with a Linux shell? > I want to test this, but am unsure of what tool to use. If, as Jeffrey suggests, there's a sensible pattern to the chapter breakdowns (an actual sample URL would help), you can either use "curl" which knows how to expand numeric ranges or wrap it in a "for" loop in the shell. Additionally, a little testing suggests that the trailing story-title slug is optional. So you can do: $ STORY_ID=8045114 $ TOTAL_CHAPTERS=87 $ SLUG=MauradersPlan $ curl "https://m.fanfiction.net/s/${STORY_ID}/[1-${TOTAL_CHAPTERS}]/"; -o "${SLUG}_#1.html" I created variables to clarify what's going where and what's easy to change. It could easily be put in a script such as "fanfiction.sh": #!/bin/sh curl "https://m.fanfiction.net/s/$1/[1-$2]/"; -o "$3_#1.html" make it executable: $ chmod ugo+x ./fanfiction.sh and then you can invoke it with $ ./fanfiction.sh 8045114 87 MauradersPlan Though now that I better understand the problem, wget might be an even better solution since it can pull down all the chapters *and* update the internal links so that they link to each other. And all you need is the story ID: wget -c --no-parent --mirror --trust-server-names --convert-links https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8045114/ Again, as per my previous message, you might want to use the --limit-rate=20.5k --random-wait options as well to be a little kinder to the server instead of hammering them. You might then want to make a directory in which you put symlinks so that you have a sensible name pointing to that directory so you can remember that as "MauradersPlan" instead of "8045114": ln -s m.fanfiction.net/s/8045114 MauradersPlan The wget and curl utilities are pretty prevalent, so I imagine they're already available to you (and if not, should be uneventful for installing). I did the above, giving me an 87-chapter book that I was able to navigate offline with lynx (or whichever other browser) and encountered no major issues. Best wishes, -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list