Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script for Upload/download files using cURL Post 302484363 by dufftime on Thursday 30th of December 2010 06:38:27 PM
Old 12-30-2010
Sounds like you need HTTP POST's

I recently wrote a script to simulate some web transactions recently (not too different than yours), I had good luck following this tip from curl's website (hxxp://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html):

Quote:
4.5 Figure Out What A POST Looks Like

When you're about fill in a form and send to a server by using curl instead
of a browser, you're of course very interested in sending a POST exactly the
way your browser does.

An easy way to get to see this, is to save the HTML page with the form on
your local disk, modify the 'method' to a GET, and press the submit button
(you could also change the action URL if you want to).

You will then clearly see the data get appended to the URL, separated with a
'?'-letter as GET forms are supposed to.
If there are 3 clicks, then there are going to be 3 separate curl commands. You should be able to avoid the first "click", because you'll just be uploading the file in step 2, no need to browse to the first page once you figure out the URL of your POST.

I'm making up examples in as I don't know what your actual HTML form looks like. The trick is figuring out the form query variables (order matters!!) and converting that into your curl command-line arguments.

Code:
#/bin/sh
# 1.  Get page - probably not required
curl http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm

# 2.  Upload file - most likely a multipart form.  the '@' means upload a local file
curl -F "upload_filename=@/full/path/to/local/file.txt" -F "myotherqueryvar=queryvalue" \
-L http://www.mysite.com/upload-page.htm > html_out.htm

# 3.  Parse HTML - you'll basically have to look at the return page
# and see if you can figure out a pattern that will grab the link.
mylink=`grep (insert pattern here that will get your link) html_out.htm`
curl ${mylink}

Not sure if you can just supply the actual website... might be easier to give you the exact commands.

-dufftime
This User Gave Thanks to dufftime For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Getting upload and download speeds with the help of script?How?

How can I get the upload and download speed of my pc, provided that my interface is wlan0? I have though something like: #!/bin/sh ups=something downs=somethingelse echo " Your current up speed is $ups Your current down speed is $downs, but I have no idea how to get them?Are... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
5 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Script to monitor folder and upload found files via FTP

Hi everyone! I'm in a need of a shell script that search for all files in a folder, move all those files to a temp folder, and upload those files via FTP. When the file transfer via FTP completes successfully, the file is moved to a completed folder. In case any of those files fails, the file... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pulsorock
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

curl script to download files from Secured HTTPS server?

curl -# -v -d "sendusername=myname&password=mypassword&wheretogo=download.php" -L -o test.zip http://www.ims-dm.com/cgi/securedownload.php?p=HIREFTPM\&prodtype=hire/test.zip * About to connect() to www.ims-dm.com port 80 * Trying 209.61.193.139... connected * Connected to www.ims-dm.com... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: laknar
1 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Shell Imgur upload with curl

Hi imgur(){ $*|convert label:@- png:-|curl -F "image=@-" -F "key=1913b4ac473c692372d108209958fd15" http://api.imgur.com/2/upload.xml|grep -Eo "<original>(.)*</original>" | grep -Eo "http://i.imgur.com/*";}Execute a command, convert output to .png file, upload file to imgur.com, then returning... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: slashdotweenie
10 Replies

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Help with using curl to download files from https

Hi I'm trying to download an xml file from a https server using curl on a Linux machine with Ubuntu 10.4.2 I am able to connect to the remote server with my username and password but the output is only "Virtual user <username> logged in". I am expecting to download the xml file. My output... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: henryN
4 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl ftp ssl download files

Hello all, I have been struggling with this issue on and off for a couple of weeks now and I just got it all working, so I wanted to share my findings in case some other poor soul needs to know how. First some background on what I'm doing. I am uploading files to different directories based on... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: msjkadams
0 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to download files matching pattern from FTP using CURL or WGET?

Hi, For an order I requested, the provider has uploaded a tar file in public FTP site which internally has tons of files (compressed) and I need to download files that follows particular pattern which would be few hundreds. Note: The order can't be requested for files that follows the... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Amalan
7 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

FTP in shell script and selecting files for upload

Hi, Im a newbie with programming and shell scripting. Im running OSX/Mac and Darwin. I would like to create a shell script that would : 1. Search a Volume and directory (including subdirectories) for a file that : * filename ends with ”_Highres.pdf” and * the file creation date of... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: NickeZ28
8 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl command to download multiple files with a file prefix

I am using the below curl command to download a single file from client server and it is working as expected curl --ftp-ssl -k -u ${USER}:${PASSWD} ftp://${HOST}:${PORT}/path/to/${FILE} --output ${DEST}/${FILE} let say the client has 3 files hellofile.101, hellofile.102, hellofile.103 and I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: r@v!7*7@
3 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl , download file with user:pass in bash script

Hello, My question is about curl command. (ubuntu14.04) In terminal, I am able to download my mainfile with: curl -u user1:pass1 http://11.22.33.44/******* When I convert it into bash script like this: #!/bin/bash cd /root/scripts computer_ip=11.22.33.44 curl -u $1:$2... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
8 Replies
CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options						 CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_UPLOAD - enable data upload SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, long upload); DESCRIPTION
The long parameter upload set to 1 tells the library to prepare for and perform an upload. The CURLOPT_READDATA(3) and CURLOPT_INFILE- SIZE(3) or CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE(3) options are also interesting for uploads. If the protocol is HTTP, uploading means using the PUT request unless you tell libcurl otherwise. Using PUT with HTTP 1.1 implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header. You can disable this header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3) as usual. If you use PUT to a HTTP 1.1 server, you can upload data without knowing the size before starting the transfer if you use chunked encoding. You enable this by adding a header like "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3). With HTTP 1.0 or without chunked transfer, you must specify the size. DEFAULT
0, default is download PROTOCOLS
Most EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { /* we want to use our own read function */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, read_callback); /* enable uploading */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L); /* specify target */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile"); /* now specify which pointer to pass to our callback */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, hd_src); /* Set the size of the file to upload */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE, (curl_off_t)fsize); /* Now run off and do what you've been told! */ curl_easy_perform(curl); } AVAILABILITY
Always RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_PUT(3), CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE(3), libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:49 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy