How to download multiple files from website with wget and perform functions on downloaded file before next file is downloaded

Question

I am using wget to download a number of json files from a website. However, I want to perform some sort of function on these files to reduce their size before downloading the next file.

Is there a way to specify a wget command and then perform a series of functions on the downloaded file before the next file is downloaded?

An example of my script is below:

for FILE in wget -A json -np -nd -r **website URL**
  do **somefunctions** 
  rm $FILE
done

but this doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

Ended up using the command

wget -O **URL** | awk **file suffix** | cut **delimiter1** | cut **delimiter2** > filenames.txt

then I just iterated through that file to download the files one at a time:

while read FILE; do **commands**; done <filenames.txt

Not extremely elegant, but it did the trick!