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Extract Data from website

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:14 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Hi,

Anyone know of a way to extract ALL files from a specific folder on a website? For example, all the midi files in the root folder of http://www.somesite.org?

Any software suggestions or even a php script would be great thanks :-)

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:59 pm
by Deemo
um....dont think you are allowed to do that....thats what hackers do

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:45 am
by Chris Corbyn
Oh. OK didn't realise it was illegal or anything. Sorry :-/

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:56 am
by m3mn0n
Depends on the situation, and purpose, but in most cases what you're asking is illegal.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:31 am
by kettle_drum
As long as the page links to the files, or you can get the index view of the folder you can use wget.

And it would only be illegal if you were ment to pay for the files etc, if the server is serving the files then your fine.