Ubuntu – Use Wget to download a file from the Ubuntu One Account/ Online Storage

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Is there any way to use wget to download a file from my Ubuntu One Account/Online Storage?

say I try wget http://ubuntuone.com/p/14bm/ it should download the file called "wget-u1-test-doc.txt" but all I get is a file index.html.

for now I'm using a dropbox account to do this job instead of ubuntu one.

I'm playing around with some post install scripts {I'm trying to teach myself some things} on ubuntu in virtualbox oneiric and natty so I may install ubuntu then after a while do a clean install and start from fresh. the scripts mainly just download and install customized .desktop files for the unity launcher and put them in the right places. this is so I don't have to keep doing it manually every time. and I find it a fun way to learn not only scripting but ubuntu as well.

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Use wget's --content-disposition option:

$ wget -nv --content-disposition http://ubuntuone.com/p/14bm/
2011-07-15 17:31:47 URL:http://ubuntuone.com/p/14bm/ [143/143] -> "wget-u1-test-doc.txt" [1]

"Automated" Oracle Java Downloads (JRE/JDK 6/7 and others...)

You will need sqlite3 installed; it's a tiny package, use sudo apt-get install sqlite3 if you need to.

Open Firefox, go to the Java downloads page for the version/variant you need, and click on the Accept License Agreement radio button.
- For example, here's the Java 6 SE download page:

Open a terminal, and paste this to extract the necessary Oracle session cookies from the Firefox SQLite cookie database into a cookies format text file wget can use (source for script):

echo ".mode tabs
select host, case when host glob '.*' then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end, path,
case when isSecure then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end, expiry, name, value
from moz_cookies;" | sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/cookies.sqlite
| grep -i oracle > /tmp/oracle-cookies.txt

Now use wget to download with those session cookies:

wget --load-cookies=/tmp/oracle-cookies.txt wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u14-b08/jdk-6u14-linux-x64.bin

Notes:
- You can use these cookies for any Oracle download as long as it comes from the otn-pub directory
- You can paste the script in to a .sh file for easier use
- The cookies are not associated with IP, so for a headless/CLI server, simply SCP or transfer the cookies file and you can download from any computer (but there is a 30-minute timeout on the cookie, so beware)
- Related: How do I use wget/curl to download from a site I am logged into?

Ubuntu – how to use wget to download videos

better still:

wget -c -O /pathtoLocalDirectory/choosefilename.extensionLike3gpORflvORmp4 "HerePutTheHyperlinkInsideInvertedCommasWithoutAnyExtraSpacesSay http://somesite.something.somemorethings.etc"

reasons:

-c: if connection to server is broken before completion of your download then wget resumes from previously downloaded position, otherwise it wastes away what was already downloaded and has to restart from zero
-O: allows you to choose the location and filename of your choice in your computer

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