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mrfixit1951 10-28-2006 06:30 PM
Automated downloading of GIF's in Mozilla
 
I'm looking for a way to automatically download GIF images from the National Weather Service every hour. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.13.
So far in my script I have "/usr/bin/mozilla/mozilla http://xxxxxxx.gif". That will open mozilla, and display the GIF. Now I need a way to automatically download the image to my HD, then close mozilla.
Anyone have any ideas?

FreeDoughnut 10-28-2006 06:45 PM
Do you need to open it in Mozilla? You could just wget it. Or maybe you could do something like this:
Code:
/usr/bin/mozilla/mozilla http://xxxx.gif
/usr/bin/wget http://xxxx.gif
killall mozilla
The killall wouldn't be your best option, but I forget how to grab the process ID and just kill that.

mrfixit1951 10-30-2006 06:36 PM
Free Doughnut,
Thanks, that worked like a charm!
It's funny how sometimes you can overlook the simple things.
wget, used all by itself did the trick!


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