downloading a copied url

digiman

How do you download something that has a full url. I mean that it has the file extension on the end of it. eg.
www.boards.com/board.rar

I know if its a movie file it will just open in media player. Any ideas?

pickarooney

Not sure I understand. Either a left or a right click should suffice to download anything with a complete link, but I assume it's something more complicated you mean.

Creamy Goodness

right click >> save target as

Giblet

Paste it into a browser or a download manager?

digiman

What is the best download manager to use?
Its not a link thats why I can't save target as.

pickarooney

Any chance you can give us an example of this URL which isn't a link, because it's not making much sense so far. If the address is valid, but it's not appearing as a hyperlink, then just copy/paste it into the address bar of the browser.

digiman

pm sent to pickarooney

eggshapedfred

write a quick html file containing the "link"(a href="...) and then open it in a borwser (File -> Open file...) and then right click and "save target as". theres bound to be an easier way but this works without installing any stuff on yer 'puter

Syth

Use wget.

Just type wget <url> into the commanbd line and it'll download the file. If it complains you can use -U to change the User agent string (to something like Mozilla) If that still doesn't work, use --referer=<some other url> to set the referer URl so it'll let you download it.

Comes as standard on Linux (& other Unicies). I think it can be downloaded for Windows...

Gone West

i use getright or gozilla. theyre both pretty acceptable download managers

Pigman II

Try Streambox. It'll download anything (including real audio files).

billstraighten

www.anonym.to/?{link} then when the page comes up click the stop button then right click the red text save target as

Serbian

I use urlizer for stuff like this.

po0k

digiman wrote:

What is the best download manager to use?
Its not a link thats why I can't save target as.

WGet

Download it, put wget.exe somewhere (ie C:\Tools along with the rest of the .exes from UnxUtils).
System Properties -> Advanced -> Enviromental Variables
Edit "Path" from
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls\ENGLISH
to
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls\ENGLISH;C:\Tools

You might need to logout and login to refresh it, probbaly not though.

You can now press [Win]+[R] to bring up the Run dialogue window and type wget http://www.x.com/y.zar and wget will grab the file(s) and download them to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Profile]\
Very handy for grabbing .swf, .mov, .wmv etc. after viewing the source of a webpage where the media is embedded.

A very handy feature is wget -rnp http://www.x.com/
The -rnp is:
-r
--recursive
Turn on recursive retrieving.

-np
--no-parent
Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.

This will effective grab everything from that directory (in this case the entire 'root' folder of the website and everything below it.
wget -rnp http://www.x.com/images/ would grab everything in the images folder and everything contained below that, but wouldn't grab anythig else in the website root folder.
Bear in mind that you can only download what is accessible, commonly a file or folder may be listed in a directory, but it may not have public read permissions set and so you cannot read/open it.
Very handy for leeching blocks of files :)