(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

dejan555 wrote:Yaaay! That's great guys, that was my example. .

Thanks dejan555
The code is open, any upgrades welcome

hi dejan,

yes there are lot's of options with wget. but i think the beauty of the actual pwget is it's absolute simplicity.

but maybe a nice approach would be (like in pfind):

- pwget starts with the actual (simple) gui
- it has a new button 'Advanced'
- 'Advanced' closes (simple) gui and opens (advanced) gui
- (advanced) gui has lot's of additional options and of course a 'Simple' button to return to (simple) gui

in this way pwget would cover both requirements.

aragon

Sounds good Aragon if you want to have a go . . .

The download website could be added to the advanced page along with download only certain file types from a site (for example jpg as has been mentioned

Any other commands that could be added?

additional commands will take some time: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html

but from what i remember (for websites)

- filetypes
- --level=depth
- include-dirs
- exclude-dirs

as i wanted to extend my script/gtkdialog-knowledge, i will give a try.

but i think for now, pwget is nice as it is, a simple tool for (most) users. the advanced user uses wget directly.

aragon

Hey Lobster...I like pwget...please don't get too many functions as it's perfect for me as is....Thanks for pwget..I use it all the time as I'm such a slow typist with the command line.

Copy and paste into pwget/wget is a real time saver here.
Eric

aragon wrote: as i wanted to extend my script/gtkdialog-knowledge, i will give a try.

Great news Aragon,
If you get stuck
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Hey Lobster...I like pwget...please don't get too many functions as it's perfect for me as is....Thanks for pwget..I use it all the time as I'm such a slow typist with the command line.

Copy and paste into pwget/wget is a real time saver here.
Eric

I am sue Aragon will bear that in mind
The original pwget was written in Tkl and I found it invaluable
- written by another Puppy called Eric too . . .
when we dropped Tkl (Tkl now back in 4.2 I believe) I missed it
so did some rare programming
I am hoping Aragon will move any extras into an advanced option
So it should be as simple as before

SURE!

pwget remains like it is, with one button more => advanced.

aragon

Cool!!

Eric

Ok, now a first alpha.

The featurelist of wget is looooong, so i picked this ones:

- Copy Website
- Download multiple files
- Download files from filelist

with simplest options.

Please test.

aragon

just tried

on Puppy 3.01, When I click on a pwget simple button, GUI disappears, and does not turn in simple pwget mode

hi dingo,

2 possible reasons:

- pwget (simple) is not installed. it is a link to lobsters pwget. => main post
- pwget is installed but in another directory. it is a link to /usr/local/bin/pwget

if advanced proofs it's functions and lobster gives his ok, we could bundle the 2 parts later.

aragon

thanks. moved pwget to /usr/local/bin and now simple mode wotks

Downloaded, will try... Looks great

Works great guys, well done!

Sorry Aragon - only just seen this

I would do it the other way around
Start in simple mode and add a button for advanced features
I would maybe change 'Copy Website' to 'Download Website'

In Help - 'address' (not 'adress' - spelling)

well, it's good I commented on this so thread doesn't fall into waste

I was messing around with Pwget today and changed a few things in it,
I removed 'ok' and replaced with download.
I reused, but included the puppy logo as a banner, The actual pet size is like 3kb on puppy 4 series, Since its replacing the logo with the same logo. But I included the 4 series logo for series 2&3 hence the 8.6kb pet size, still smaller than the original version
below is the package and Screenshot
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx,
How about combining the above, with gposil's adaptation that includes a login and password feature? http://www.gposil.com/pets/pwsget-0.1.pet This would make it a better alternative to uget that Barry has included in 417.
Jim

How about improving on / extending Pwget with some much needed features?

- Switch User Agent: Some sites are very picky and won't let you download any files unless Pwget reports a specific user agent to the site.

- Set the time to auto-resume after connection is down. Resuming in Pwget is a nice feature, but it takes more than 5 minutes (!) for Pwget to resume a download in case your dial-up / ADSL connection gets reset / disconnected. That's too long

- A way to STOP (CANCEL) the download - an *essential* feature

- No cookies (Don't use cookies)

Classic obuscation of a command line app. Sad.