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appliness.js

var http = require('http'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    $ = require('jquery');

var issues = [];

function downloadIssue()
{
    var lastIndexSlash = issues[0].lastIndexOf('/') + 1;
    var filename = issues[0].substring(lastIndexSlash, issues[0].length);
    var file = fs.createWriteStream(filename);
    var request = http.get(issues[0], function(response) {
        response.pipe(file);
        response.on('end', function(){console.log('download complete');});
    });
}

http.get('http://www.appliness.com/download/', function (res) {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');

  console.log("reading list of files");

  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    a = $(chunk).find("[href$='.pdf']").each(function(index, value){
        issues.push($(value).attr('href'));
    });
  });

  res.on('end', function(a){
    console.log("started downloading...");
    downloadIssue();
  });
});