I'm using nodeJS and I need to save images hosted at Facebook into my local server. currently I am executing command line using exec to get this working. something like
wget https://example.com/image.jpg -O ic_launcher.jpg
it works, but when I have a complex url like
wget https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/20206198_1998942567005064_567078929_n.jpg?_nc_ad=z-m&oh=e92a33eb810eeb12f199a567cdaf035d&oe=5972D7E3 -O ic_launcher.jpg
it doesn't work because of the & that is on the url, how can I solve this problem? Thank you!
After I added "" to the url it worked, neat little trick but didn't know it. Well now I do.
How do i set the cron command in Cpanel in Linux server i use this it works for me is there any proper way
wget http://www.vloghit.com/crons/send_mail
You should use the full path for wget like /usr/bin/wget instead of just plain wget. Depending on the WHM server configuration the crons might be running as jailed so you might get an error stating that wget command was not found if you do not use the full path to the binary. You are also supposed to receive an email notification from that cron job. Are you geting it? I'm asking because in those email notifications you get also an error message that can help you to understand why the cron was not working.
When I use wget command in RHEL 6.5, getting the error
Error parsing proxy URL. Bad port number.
The command used to set the proxy was
export http_proxy="http_proxy://username:password#address:port/".
Yes I know this issue can be resolved by using
http_proxy=address wget --proxy-user=username --proxy-password=<password> url.
But I want to install a package and during installation, it will need to download few other packages. so the proxy should be already set and ready before the installation. How can we resolve this?
The password I used caused this issue as it had a # in it. I replaced # with %23 [UTF encoding] and now this is working fine.
make us Use of "--no-proxy"
Example : wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub --no-proxy
This will elimimate the current proxy and try to download what ever we need..
I set up the proxy on Ubuntu using general system settings (manual option).
The problem was I pasted the proxy URL with a port, while the port is also separately specified there, in different field.
I have been trying to use Curl and wget to download file from Sharepoint. I am planning to make it as Script which runs automatically everyday and download the file from URL.
I tried using CURL with following command
curl -O --user Myusername:Mypassword https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
But it gave me error about SSL connection. I got to know that there is some existing bug in CURL 7.35 So i downgraded it to 7.22. But still gives me same error.
I also tried using Wget
wget --user=Myusername --password=MyPassword --no-check-certificate https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
But it still gives me error -- Unable to establish SSL connection
Can someone please let me know how i can accomplish my task
UPDATE
I was able to resolve the error in CURL. Below is the command that i gave
curl -O -L --sslv3 -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13" --user Myusername:Mypassword 'https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_%7BB21r-9CA2-345DEF%7D&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default'
Now what it downloads is a file, which when i open it shows me Login page of Sharepoint. It does not download the actual excel file.
Any reason?
Another potential solution to this involves taking your sharepoint link and replacing the text after the '?' with download=1:
This:
https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?e=kRlVi
Becomes this:
https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?download=1
Now, you can just:
wget https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?download=1
*Note, this example used a single file and a link where anyone with the link could access the file (no credentials required)
Please use rclone
Download and install the latest one from https://rclone.org/downloads
First option: Use OneDrive to access SharePoint sites/personal folder. This option will help you to upload large files.
1.create rclone configurations using the rclone config command
2.Select New remote and give a name
3.Select cloud storage OneDrive
4.Leave client ID and secret as blank
5.Edit advanced config: n
6.Remote config: Use auto-config: y
7.Open the URL on the browser and give access to rclone
8.Select personal/shared site URL option
8a.Shared site URL option you have to give the site URL. ie; https://sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName
9.Select personal/Documents drive. Documents drive will show if you selected the shared site URL option in the 8th step
Save config and quit
And the configuration file contents will be like the following. If you selected the Personal option drive type will be personal.
[onedrive]
type = onedrive
token =
drive_id =
drive_type = documentLibrary
Second option: In this option, you can upload up to 2 GB-sized files.
1.create rclone configurations using rclone config command
2.Select New remote and give a name
3.Select cloud storage WebDAV
4.Give site URL, username and password
5.Save and quit
And the configuration file contents will be like the following. Password will be in an encrypted format.
vim /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/Documents
vendor = sharepoint
user =
pass =
Download a file from SharePoint.
rclone copy --ignore-times --ignore-size --verbose sharepoint:SourceFolder/file.txt DestFolder
Firefox plugin that captures the link with session ID etc.. and it provides a command you could paste in the console for curl or wget.
If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know.
It gives you a curl or wget command with headers, cookies and all, with a copy to clipboard button, right on the download dialogue.
Download URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget
Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/27243/how-to-find-out-the-real-download-url-on-download-sites-that-use-redirects/1239026#1239026
Struggled with the same issue myself, and had my not-so-automatic-but-man-so-convenient way, with a daily log-in.
logged into Sharepoint with a browser,
exported the cookie,
run the following command.
wget --cookies=on --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate -m https://yoursharepoint.com
And files were downloaded just fine.
For anyone using CURL to download a file on Sharepoint with an "Anyone with the link" download option. Below are the steps I had to follow to download. Essentially you have to use the cookie from the share link, and then download the file from a different download link they don't provide easily for you.
When sending the CURL command for the “share link” it returns a 302 message, a forward link, and a cookie. If we save that cookie and use it to hit a “download” link I am able to download the file. Essentially, Microsoft uses the initial “share link” to send the cookie to the browser, and then redirect to their “View File” website. On that website you need to use the cookie provided (authentication), and select your next function (On screen view, print, download, etc). When you click the download button you hit a different link. I was able to find this link by going to the "view page" website for the file/link, turning on developer tools, and watching the link the browser follows when hitting download. You can then replicate that link for each file. If we use that download link along with the cookie, we can download the file.
curl -i -c cookies.txt SHARE LINK
curl -o docsdownloaded.pdf -b cookies.txt DOWNLOAD LINK
Share Link Ex: https://tenant.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/Folder/EdNUf4xAVzFJgBoO0MqkfppR5tgobxLrmCnRqU4LFJQ?e=rOGNSD
Download Link Ex:https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Folder/_layouts/15/download.aspx?SourceUrl=%2Fsites%2FFolder%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FBig%2Dfile%2Epdf
Similar to the answer Zyglute gave, using cURL:
You can export your login cookie using the cookies.txt Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg
Then use the following code:
curl -b cookie.txt https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
At some point your Sharepoint session will expire (not sure how long that takes), and you will need a new cookie file.
EDIT: If a malicious user gets a hold of your cookie.txt, they could get into your SharePoint account, so be sure to keep it safe.
Use wget adding &download=1 at the end of the link.
wget "<yourlink>&download=1"
it will be download with <yourlink> string as name, then just mv with the correct name after.
Is it possible to download a file in say /home/... using wget to my local machine? I'm pretty newbish on the bash shell side so perhaps this is just a matter of using the options correctly. What I've gleaned is that something like this should work, but my test aren't downloading the file locally but placeing them within the folder i'm using wget in
root#mysite [/home/username/public_html/themes/themename/images]# wget -O "tester.png"
"http://www.mysite.com/themes/themename/images/previous.png"
--2011-09-08 14:28:49-- http://www.mysite.com/themes/themename/images/previous.png
Resolving www.mysite.com... 173.193.xxx.xxx
Connecting to www.mysite.com|173.193.xxx.xxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 352 [image/png]
Saving to: `tester.png'
100%[==============================================================================================>] 352 --.-K/s in 0s
2011-09-08 14:28:49 (84.3 MB/s) - `tester.png' saved [352/352]
Perhaps the above is a bad example but I can't seem how to figure out how to use wget (or some other command) to get something from a non web accessable directory (its a backup file) is wget the correct command for this?
wget uses the http (or ftp) protocol to transfer it's files, so no, you can't use it to transfer anything which is not availible through those services. What you should do is use scp. It uses ssh, and you can use it to get any file (which you have the permission to read, that is).
Say you want /home/myuser/test.file from the computer mycomp, and you want to save it as test.newext. Then you'd invoke it like this:
scp myuser#mycomp:/home/myuser/test.file test.newext
You can do a lot of other nifty stuff with scp so read the manual for more possibilities!
This belongs on superuser, but you want to use scp to copy the file to your local machine.
When a file isn't web accessible, you cant' get it with wget.