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I am trying to download dozens of PDF files located on pages linked from here:

http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all

Each PDF is referred to by a URL ending with /downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/[some three digit number]/.

I have tried these:

wget -r -l2 -A.pdf http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all
wget -r -l2 -np http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all -A "*.pdf"
wget -r -l2 -np http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all -A "*.###"

It doesn't get the PDFs.

Does it have something to do with the server not being indexed to allow me to access the URLs like a file hierarchy? Is there a way to make it work?

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Does this work for you ?

#!/bin/bash
for i in {000..175}
do
     wget  http://machineknittingetc.com/downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/$i
done
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  • Yes, thanks! But it gets a lot more than the links on that page. Apparently the downloadable subpath has a lot of files. I will look for a range for the files I want (hopefully they are not randomly numbered) and see if I can alter it.
    – Kallaste
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 9:21
  • I really should have thought of that.
    – Kallaste
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 9:23
  • No, it seems the files I want are not numbered predictably. Some are consecutive but then they start to jump around. Short of passing it a list of each file path, this will not work. Is there no way to do it with the wget filters?
    – Kallaste
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 9:37
  • @Kallaste In that case get the html using wget and grep for the document numbers, download again from that list Commented Jan 4, 2017 at 11:26
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@rajaganesh87 you are guessing at the directory link numbers and are your code does not work for the actual links needed per the base link http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all and the (.pdf) files correlating to it.

The problem is your being blocked by the

robots.txt file

and your using the dot (.) in

    -A .pdf

Try the code below that I tested and it works.

 wget -np -nd -r -l2 -A pdf -e robots=off http://machineknittingetc.com/passap.html?limit=all 

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