I want to create a service to copy the URL and subsequently download it via wget.
How would I go about creating an OSX service to wget arbitrary urls from a browser or system wide. I believe it'd be possible with Automator's Run Shell Script action.
I had it set up to use my default shell (bash) and run the command found at /opt/local/wget but for some reason I'm not getting it to pass along the url.
Best Answer
I have done something like this before, and what made my life easiest was pbcopy and pbpaste. They allow you to either read the current clipboard or write to it.
So you go to Safari, copy some text, run an automator action. Action is run shell script schell script is just basically just wget `pbcopy`