Hi:

I am taking a news feed from another site, and trying to use wGet to get the file local on my machine.

I used wget from the command line, and it worked fine. I used this command:

wget http://www.theirsite/export-news.html --output-document /path/to/my/test.txt

As a command line in telnet, it works great. But when run as a cron job (which is my goal!), I get this error:

wget: not found

Not sure why- anyone got any ideas?

Should I put this in s script, and then cron the script? If I do that, I would like to run a check to make sure the file is not zero bytes, how can I do that?

I think what I would like to do, if I run a script, is run the ewget, check and make sure it is not zero bytes, and if it is not, then copy test.txt to news.txt (which is the actual file I use for the include.) Does this sound good?

Thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

Maybe you should try providing the full path to wget? Cron doesn't run from the same environment as your user account, so you can either set some env. variables with your cron job or just (easier) provide the full path.

- wil

Hi Wil:

Don't think we have met before. Hi there!

Well, I will give this a shot, and see what happens tomorrow morning at 6 AM. Works fine (includnng the path, I mean!) from command line.

Thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

wget will work from ssh as it's location is set inyour path. You can see this in your .bashrc or .bash_profile file in your home directory, for example mine reads:

export PATH=~/bin:/usr/local/ghost/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

cron won't recognise this and so requires the full path to be present. You could only use "wget" without the path if your cronjob script was in the same directory as wget I expect.

Paul:

I suspect you are right! Well, Now I have learned something new! Thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

   
Hi everybody!

Does anybody have some experience downloading https pages with wget?
I have spent/lost 2 crazy days to find the appropriate combination of options to perform this action.
I would like to download the page https://www.boursorama.com/palmares/palmares.phtml where my username and password are 22986473 and 660883

Thanks a lot in advance.

Hi,

Have you tried this?

https://22986473:660883@www.boursorama.com/palmares/palmares.phtml

?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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