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Alternative - DOS Scripting

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The Alternative - Scripting the Bad Jojo

There is various ways to download.

A) You can download by using your browser and choose Save.

B) You can also use download managers like Down Them All, ReGet or GetRight and even extend it with download lists.

C) You can also use an advanced Offline Browser like Offline Explorer EE, BlackWidow, HTTrack, HTTP Weazel or Teleport Pro. And you can even spice it up with filters, depth, HAM and macros while the program crawls like a spider over the website of choice.

State of the art tools all of them, doing what they do best. But they all have overhead. Either you have to click too many pages, or you will have to hand pick every download with the download managers or your "spider" traverses too many pages to download only what you want.

What you need is an alternative

The alternative to choose is:

Scripting is only something for you if you have skills. You need skills in programming, you need to have knowledge about http/url's and html. Knowledge about JavaScript and Ajax is an advantage. And especially knowledge about regular expressions is very beneficial to have.


These skills are all learnable. Here on MG you can read about regular expressions and learn them here in article 1, 2, 3 and 4 and you can also gain knowledge about URL's.

But before you go all cold and say that this is way above your head or maybe even too tedious, then you should take some time to watch a small 3:39min video of a tiny script (62 lines) which makes some things easier. The script is not flashy or anything, but it may inspire you.

Download Scripting.badjojo.XViD.zip (6.26Mb)

Thanks to _Store_ for keeping Perl in the focus area and thanks to lobos for script inspiration.

CSV laws ?

Rumors informs that there is a new revised Standard Act on the way.

The original standard act "El-Toro Standard Act for CSV Makers v1.01" was much about protecting the csv maker and setting up loose guidelines of how to organize csvs if there were to be accepted as official ET material.

The upcoming revised act "VG Standard Act for CSV Makers v1.?" seems to have a somewhat stricter approach towards the csv maintainer, including the ability to override decisions made by the maker. Is this a loaded gun in your back head ?, could be.

The pre-copy of the act includes new guidelines for new media and the conversion factors between medias, CD -> DVD -> DVD9 -> HDDVD -> BD etc, which is nice. It seems that things have loosened in this area.

There are minor additions about chronology and ordering including character use. All in the good interest of making good csvs which can be used anywhere, it seems.

A very good new thing is the "War Against Pre-Final", the act draft has suggestions about the maxinum timespan for a Pre-Final, which can turn up to be one of the better things the new act introduces.

Let's all hope for the best and get the most out of it.

Happy summer holiday to you from MG.