How do i save what i download to a folder instead of a file

[fakankun 0]

i want to download files offline to a folder, not to a file.

 

im not creating a list, im creating a folder of xml files.

 

how would i go about doing this?

[IRobot 43]

Where are you 'downloading' the files offline from?

[fakankun 0]

well its saving a "link as" it downloads the page behind the link, it's online not offline sorry

[IRobot 43]

If each link is a URL for a specific file, why not use the 'download file' command?

[fakankun 0]

i am. but the thing is in the file download node or whatever...i have to choose a file to save the download to, i don't understand why, but i can't just save the download to a folder instead. when i try to i get an error when running the script saying it couldn't download

[IRobot 43]

If it shows a cannot download error, it's likely that an incorrect URL has been selected for the download file command.

 

If you need help selecting the URL, post a partial screenshot or the .ubot file.

[fakankun 0]

no i've successfully downloaded the page before, so that command is correct.

 

the problem is it only works when i save the file as a file that already existed.

 

in the download file node it asks for the url and the file, i have to select a file to save the download to for some reason. when i do this it works fine.

 

but i don't want to have to do that 250 a day.

 

i want to download the file into a folder, but it won't even let me pick a folder, i have to pick a file then erase the file so only the folder in showing like this:

 

user/documents/ubots/blank.xml becomes user/documents/ubots/

 

when i try the second one i get an error that it can't download, and i know it won't download because it doesn't have pre-picked file to save to

[IRobot 43]

the problem is it only works when i save the file as a file that already existed.

The 'download file' command works even if the specified file does not physically exist.

 

Even when you download a file from IE, it asks you to specify a file, not a folder.

 

It may help if you post a screenshot of your ubot code.

[fakankun 0]

here is a screen shot http://prpackets.com/working.jpgit works this way, but if i remove the jj.xml from the end it won't work.

 

when i make the download command the file part asks me to save something, but there is nothing to save

[IRobot 43]

In the above scenario, 'download file' is unlikely to be the best option.

 

A better way to do the above is to add the scraped attributes to a list, and then loop through the list and save each item to file.

[fakankun 0]

right i thought about that, but this isn't a zip file or something that downloads automatically, it's a xml page, if i grab the link, it would be like grabbing google.com, how would i be able to download that?

[IRobot 43]

right i thought about that, but this isn't a zip file or something that downloads automatically, it's a xml page, if i grab the link, it would be like grabbing google.com, how would i be able to download that?

Not sure what you mean - your code above implies you are scraping a list of .xml URLs, not a zip file.

 

After you've chosen by attribute, use the $add to list command. This list will contain the list of .xml file URL's.

[fakankun 0]

i don't want the urls though, i want the downloadable page.

[IRobot 43]

I think you mean xml files - which is what you'll be getting.

 

If you don't understand, I'd suggest going through the scraping and variable tutorials (again).

[fakankun 0]

lol, ok

 

this is the page im stuck on:http://links2rss.com/convert.php

 

it tells me to right click the "link 1" and save the page

 

if i just scrape "link 1" url to file i won't be able to go back later and save the page.

[IRobot 43]

It may help if you read what was written in post #12. You won't need to go back to 'save the page', because the URL of the xml file will be in a list.

[fakankun 0]

i want to download the entire page as a .xml file and upload it to my own domain.

 

you know like when you go in your browser click "save page as" and download a firefox page...

 

 

i can only do this if i download from the "link 1" part

 

if i scrape the url i won't be able to download the page only open it, but that won't do me any good.

 

you see what im saying? if i collect the url how will i then "save page as"?

 

but if i right click and save link as its just like going into my browser and clicking "save page as".

 

if i scrape the url it will just be a url to a page, but a page i can no longer download

[IRobot 43]

If you wish to save the current web page, then use:

 

download file
URL: Document Constants > $url
File: myfilename.ext 

[fakankun 0]

so i scrape the urls first? then open the page and save it?

[fakankun 0]

how bout you tell me how you would download the page, and i''l try it and tell you if it works

[crazyflx 22]

Here you go man, a working example that does the following:

 

Visits the page where you need to save all the feeds

 

Scrapes that pages XML urls & adds them to a list

 

Downloads each XML file from the list of URLs AND dynamically creates the file names for them

 

If you have any questions, let me know.

 

P.S. - It will save the file to "my documents" with the file name 1.xml

 

If there were 3 urls to download, they would be saved as:

 

1.xml

2.xml

3.xml

 

etc, etc, etc.

 

It uses an incremented variable as the file name to save. You'll see when you download the example & check out the source code.

Example.ubot