Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All,

I have gone through Google and came to know that we can download images from a site using wget.

Now I am been asked to check whether an image is populated in a site or not. If yes, please send that image to an address as an attachment..

Say for example, the site is Wiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and image to be downloaded is 220px-Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg

but when I use the below command, this retrieves all the images in the site and its sublinks.

Code:

wget -r -A jpeg,jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

It creates a directory from where i run, and keeps all the contents in a hierarchy manner.

How can I download only the image 220px-Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg and not anything in my system, not even the source html.

Awaiting for your response thanks.

Why don't you give wget the exact and complete URL of that image?

This is what I found out from the source. In this case, the href links to the jpg, but in my real time work, href links to the Site and not to the image.


<div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg/220px-Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg" width="220" height="236" class="thumbimage" /></a>

Append http://en.wikipedia.org and then use wget.

like

Code:

wget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg

thanks Pamu, it works

Why don't you use the ---------- Post updated at 09:51 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:44 AM ----------

Does it? If I use pamu's wget cmd, I get an HTML file. Issueing wget with the contents of the src tag, I get an image.

@RudiC: Yes , it works.

I have appended my website address followed by the Image location.

http://en.wikipedia.org//upload.wiki..._Commons-1.jpg

I have not tried the code given by Pamu, I tried his concept of appending the site address before the img src.