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ngbg.r

REBOL [ Title: "National Geographic Image of the Day Downloader" Date: 17-Jan-2004 Version: 1.1.0 File: %ngbg.r History: [ 21-Sep-2001 "1.0.0 - First script - Ian Monroe" 17-Jan-2004 "1.1.0 - Url updated - Charles Mougel" ] Author: "Charles MOUGEL" Email: %charles--mougel--spinodo--com Web: http://www.spinodo.com Purpose: {Downloads the current picture of the day from nationalgeographic.com and saves it to a location of your choice. Directions: Change the 'filename' in the source to the location of your choice. The agrument -s causes it to be silent and so not print what step it is at. These directions can be seen by adding a -h agrument. } Library: [ level: 'intermediate platform: 'all type: [demo tool] domain: [markup text-processing web] tested-under: win support: %johnatemps--yahoo--fr License: none ] ] filename: %ngbg.jpg ; change to wanted location PrintStuff: true if system/script/args == "-s" [ PrintStuff: false ] if system/script/args == "-h" [ print "Downloads the current picture of the day from nationalgeographic.com and saves it to a location of your choice." print "Change the 'filename' variable in the source to the location of your choice." print "The agrument -s causes it to be silent and not print what step it is at." quit ] if PrintStuff [ prin "Downloading National Geographic wallpaper.cgi web page..." ] ngwebsite: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/wallpaper.cgi page: read ngwebsite if PrintStuff [ print " Done." ] parse page [thru "/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/" copy NameOfJpg to "^">"] ;old code ; imageloc: join http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/ NameOfJpg ;updated code 17/01/2004 imageloc: join http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/ NameOfJpg ;end updated code 17/01/2004 if PrintStuff [ prin "Downloading " prin imageloc print " ..." ] image: read/binary imageloc write/binary filename image if PrintStuff [ prin filename print " saved" ]
halt ;; to terminate script if DO'ne from webpage
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