Saving an image from external site

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Hi

In Perl, how can I grab an image through its URL and save it on my
server?

Ex: save www.site.com/image.jpg onto a dir on my server (another.com)

Im looking at setting a cronjob that through this perl script grabs
this specific image once an hour and puts it on my server

Thanks

 

[Chris Mattern]

Hi

In Perl, how can I grab an image through its URL and save it on my
server?

Ex: save www.site.com/image.jpg onto a dir on my server (another.com)

Im looking at setting a cronjob that through this perl script grabs
this specific image once an hour and puts it on my server

Thanks

You want LWP::Simple. In fact, you may want to dispense with Perl
altogether and use wget, but LWP::Simple is the way to go if you
want to use Perl.

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[Gregory Toomey]

You want LWP::Simple. In fact, you may want to dispense with Perl
altogether and use wget, but LWP::Simple is the way to go if you
want to use Perl.

I use cron & wget:
13,28,43,58 * * * * wget http://XXX.com -O /home/aaa/XXX >/dev/null 2>&1

gtoomey

 

[Tad McClellan]

In Perl, how can I grab an image through its URL

The same way you grab HTML through its URL.

perldoc -q HTML

How do I fetch an HTML file?

and save it on my
server?

That depends on what kind of access you have to this "server".

Im looking at setting a cronjob

On this "server" or somewhere else?

that through this perl script grabs
this specific image
once an hour and puts it on my server

use LWP::Simple for downloading the image.

We can't help with how to put it on your server if we don'
know what access you have available to you.