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I've done this successfully with Ruby Mechanize.

• bdcravens 14y ago
  Awesome. I'd love some hints or links, as I'm always looking to refactor.
  • goostavos 14y ago
    In general, if you're going the mechanize route, .retrieve() is the function your looking for. e.g. br = mechanize.Browser() br.retrieve("https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png, google_logo.png)[0] Mechanize doesn't really have a proper doc, but just about everything you'd need could be figured out from the very lengthy examples page on their site.
    • bdcravens 14y ago
      Playing with it now, and while it seems to hit my download need, I can't seem to get it to play nice with sites that are JavaScript dependent. Am I missing something, or is there a way to plugin an underlying WebKit engine?
      • bryogenic 14y ago
        PhantomJS is capable of downloading binary content from js dependent sites but it is a journey to get it working as it is not an out-of-the-box feature. Instead use CasperJS to drive Phantom and get a ton of snazzy features including simple binary downloads. Happy scraping!