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Lobster · Last edited by Lobster on Mon 21 Jan 2008, 15:17; edited 1 time in total

Pwget is a simple GUI front end to the wget utility.
Wget is used for reliably downloading larger files from the internet such as ISOs.
The files are verified during the download procedure.
As ISO and other files are checked and downloads resumed,
they do not require a md5sum check.
Cut and paste the source file you wish to download.
Use the file selector to choose the destination

use right click on pwget to activate icon and drag on to desktop

to paste in URL location (Linux method - learn it!) Very Happy

highlight with mouse and middle button click in address

Development details
With thanks to Mark Ulrich and other developers
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25183http://

Basically this is a replacement/update for Ian's front end
which was written in tkl (No longer in Dingo)
Dingo has a downloader based on gcurl (very similar in operation)

Has been tested on 2.17 and Dingo Alpha
It should work on any Puppy with GTK3 (aprox Puppy 2.12 Puplets and above)

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1169 Location: USA

hey lobster i think you grabed that link from you newest post page and it doesn't work!

here is the correct link to pwget's development :

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25183http://

Lobster · Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 15:18 Post subject:

Thanks cb88 Smile

have modified the link Smile

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1469 Location: Maine, USA

Lobster,
It may come across as nit-picky, but "copy-and-paste" is what you seem to intend; so please make Pwget use the appropriate term. "Cut-&-paste" is alarming, if one doesn't want to risk changing the source of the URL text.

This is a common misuse of "cut and paste", so I would not like to see it propagated in a Puppy dialog. Thanks for listening.
Richard

Eyes-Only · Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 19:48 Post subject:

Hi Lobster!

I was just going down through the menus here in 3.0.1 to see whether we had anything similar to that and we do, named "Xweget". So out of curiosity to see what the GUI looked like I started it up. UGH! I have to admit that I've never used these before, always being lazy and just clicking on the file in my browser. Wink

Yet there have been so many times I'd have loved to have closed the browser and just walk off. Thanks for opening my eyes to another way to download where I can do just that.

And for the GUI behind yours? Nicer than Xweget's by far mate! Thanks for sharing! Very Happy

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

Lobster · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 01:05 Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback guys.
Barry has included the code in Dingo (Puppy 4)

I used the command line code from Ian's Xweget
Without tkl (which is not included with Dingo)
all that was required was a front end and some
copy + paste from Ian's code

There is incidentally a command line program called wput
(not in Dingo but potentially very useful for developers)
that uploads in a similar way . . .

Ian · Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 03:53 Post subject:

Lobster

I didn't realize you were doing this as I could have saved myself time & effort.
I've attached a later version of what I am working on, it has a Resume function but is not perfect yet, you might find it of interest.

Eyes-Only has mentioned Xweget in3.0.1 I think he means Xwget.
I didn't think the GUI was that bad considering it was created with tcl/TK.

He may like to have a look at Xwget-6 and see if I have improved.

Py · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 70

Lobster · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 02:36 Post subject:

Thanks Ian,

Yes Py - you are correct . . .
No only that, if your line breaks down during download
Set up again with the same parameters and location
and it will start off with inclusion of your previous download
- so you do not have to start from scratch

Never have to use md5sum unless downloading from browser . . .

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Lobster,
I think you might have this wrong.
How does pwget know what the md5 of the file is?

Lobster · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 07:44 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009, 06:22 Post subject:

The following code which I found in a recent unrelated thread
would add the facility to download a whole website

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1696 Location: Germany

hi lobster,

try the following one. i've tested it, works for me, but please test a little more.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 27 Feb 2009, 00:55 Post subject:

Thanks aragon

Have made changes to the help file and included your mods

Rename the enclosed file to pwget
and place in user/local/Pwget

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2609 Location: Montenegro

Yaaay! That's great guys, that was my example. Smile

I don't have to do it from terminal anymore. Smile

Wait... actually I do, but it's still great! U see I never download the whole website, for example, if I want only pictures from some location or webpage, I do this: