tkget2.tcl is simple to use in
its basic form. URLs to download can be enterred through the three
blue "paste" buttons at the top of the main window. All "paste" buttons
will use the desktop's copy/paste buffer to determine what URL to download.
Clicking on the "paste" buttons with the right mouse button will cause
tkget2.tcl to grab the URL to be pasted from the current web browser window
(On Win32 systems).
URL Entries |
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When URLs are pasted into tkget2.tcl, they
show up in the scrollable widget below all of the configuration widgets.
When you have entered everything you want to download, click the get button.
The background of the URL entries indicate
what state the entry is in:
| White: |
New entry |
| Blue: |
Attempting download |
| Green: |
Download successful |
| Yellow: |
Download warning (older file already existed
locally) |
| Red: |
Error Downloading |
If an entry fails to download, it can be
resubmitted by clicking the "R" button towards the end of the URL entry.
If you no longer want to download an entry, click the "X" at the end of
the entry to delete it from the download list.
The "clear" button will clear all downloaded
or warning entries. Clicking "clear" with the right mouse button
will clear all entries including failed downloads.
There are a few options that affect the
behavior of tkget2.tcl:
| rec level |
Changing this setting effects how many
recursive levels of links wget will traverse. Using zero will keep
wget from traversing any links and will just grab the target page. |
| username |
The username to use for authenticated
access. |
| password |
The password to use for authenticated
access. |
| delay |
The amount of time to delay between each
download. This implies a thread count of 1. |
| threads |
The amount of simultaneous downloads to
be performed. |
| auto clr |
When a download completes, if it was not
an error it will automatically be cleared from the download list. |
| The
URL Dialog |
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The "paste urls" button will open up the
URL Dialog. In order to open this dialog, there must be a valid
url in the system's cut/paste buffer. The URL Dialog will open
up and begin fetching the text of the page at the specified URL.
When it is done, just click the "ok" button and all links from the page
will be entered into the Main Window's url text widget.
The
URL Dialog allows for filtering of references in a given page. For
instance, it can allow only links that meet a regular expression for images.
Additionally, with the checkbuttons next to the filter entry wiget, the
URL Dialog can include any combination of href references and embedded
image references.
If you change the glob pattern or checkbuttons,
you will need to hit the "get" button again so the page can be reloaded
with the new settings.
| The
Range Dialog |
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The "paste range" button will open up the
Range Dialog. In order to open this dialog, there must be a validd
url in the system's cut/paste buffer. The Range Dialog will find
the last number range present in the specified url and fill the start and
end entries with that number. If the url is "http://www.yahoo.com/something1.html"
the start and end entries would show "1". You can then modify the
end to download the appropriate range of files. The Range Dialog
will not finish unless there is a selection in the url entry... see this
image
above for an example of this.
