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Ruby script to download a number of files from individual URLs via HTTP/HTTPS/FTP specified in an external file.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Ruby script to download a number of files
# from individual URLs via HTTP/HTTPS/FTP
# specified in an external file.
#
# Author: Tobias Preuss
# Revision: 2013-04-18 16:26 +0100 UTC
# License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
require 'net/http'
require 'net/ftp'
require 'uri'
require 'date'
def create_directory(dirname)
unless Dir.exists?(dirname)
Dir.mkdir(dirname)
else
puts "Skipping creating directory " + dirname + ". It already exists."
end
end
def read_uris_from_file(file)
uris = Array.new
File.open(file).each do |line|
line = line.strip
next if line == nil || line.length == 0
parts = line.split(' ')
pair = Hash[ [:resource, :filename].zip(parts) ]
uris.push(pair)
end
uris
end
def download_resource(resource, filename)
uri = URI.parse(resource)
case uri.scheme.downcase
when /http|https/
http_download_uri(uri, filename)
when /ftp/
ftp_download_uri(uri, filename)
else
puts "Unsupported URI scheme for resource " + resource + "."
end
end
def http_download_uri(uri, filename)
puts "Starting HTTP download for: " + uri.to_s
http_object = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http_object.use_ssl = true if uri.scheme == 'https'
begin
http_object.start do |http|
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri.request_uri
http.read_timeout = 500
http.request request do |response|
open filename, 'w' do |io|
response.read_body do |chunk|
io.write chunk
end
end
end
end
rescue Exception => e
puts "=> Exception: '#{e}'. Skipping download."
return
end
puts "Stored download as " + filename + "."
end
def ftp_download_uri(uri, filename)
puts "Starting FTP download for: " + uri.to_s + "."
dirname = File.dirname(uri.path)
basename = File.basename(uri.path)
begin
Net::FTP.open(uri.host) do |ftp|
ftp.login
ftp.chdir(dirname)
ftp.getbinaryfile(basename)
end
rescue Exception => e
puts "=> Exception: '#{e}'. Skipping download."
return
end
puts "Stored download as " + filename + "."
end
def download_resources(pairs)
pairs.each do |pair|
filename = pair[:filename].to_s
resource = pair[:resource].to_s
unless File.exists?(filename)
download_resource(resource, filename)
else
puts "Skipping download for " + filename + ". It already exists."
end
end
end
def main
sources_file = ARGV.first
uris = read_uris_from_file(sources_file)
target_dir_name = Date.today.strftime('%y%m%d')
create_directory(target_dir_name)
Dir.chdir(target_dir_name)
puts "Changed directory: " + Dir.pwd
download_resources(uris)
end
if __FILE__ == $0
usage = <<-EOU
usage: ruby #{File.basename($0)} sources.txt
The file sources.txt should contain an URL and the target file name.
The expected file format is:
http://www.domain.com/file target_file_name
ftp://www.domain.com/file target_file_name
EOU
abort usage if ARGV.length != 1
main
end
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