07-24-2012
Using cURL to submit a post form
I am trying to write a shell script to use curl in order to automate downloading data from a website. The URL with the post form is here: http://try-db.org/de/InfoBySpecies.php .
I have a list of about 1800 different species I want to check. For Example, choose the first species and use the Queries option "Measurement table ...". The resulting page will contain a html table with the data. Getting to this stage would be nice progress, but eventually this script needs to parse out the download link and download the resulting tab delimited file.
Command:
curl --data "species=29&OutTab=tab1&submit=Submit&dummy=" http://try-db.org/de/InfoBySpecies.php
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers.
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NAME
hxcopy - copy an HTML file and update its relative links
SYNOPSIS
hxcopy [ -i old-URL ] [ -o new-URL ] [ file-or-URL [ file-or-URL ] ]
DESCRIPTION
The hxcopy command copies its first argument to its second argument, while updating relative links. The input is assumed to be HTML or
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OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
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For the purposed of updating relative links, act as if new-URL is the location to which the input is copied. If this option is
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ENVIRONMENT
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BUGS
Unlike the last argument of cp(1), the last argument of hxcopy must be a file, not a directory.
The second argument must be a local file. Writing to a URL is not yet implemented. To work around this, replace hxcopy file.html
http://example.org/file.html by hxcopy -o http://example.org/file.html file.html tmp.html and then upload tmp.html to the given URL with
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Assume the HTML file foo.html contains a relative link to "../bar.html". Here are some examples of commands:
hxcopy foo.html bar/foo.html
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hxcopy foo.html ../foo.html
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The file file1.html is copied to file2.html and the relative link to "../bar.html" is rewritten as "bar.html". A command like this
may be useful to update files that are later uploaded to a server.
SEE ALSO
cp(1), curl(1), hxwls(1)
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