[Question] random part in url

[Aapjuh]

Hi all,

Case:

I'm trying to have my script download an file from a URL, but the URL/File keeps changing.

Question:

How can i script in something like/as a wildcard for an URL?

Example:

The URL is something like this "www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-273-884-58.exe"

273-884-58 is the part that keeps changing to random numbers , File and .exe is what is always thesame

Tried:

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe", "C:\Users\User\Desktop\" & "*.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe", "C:\Users\User\Desktop\" & "?.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe", "C:\Users\User\Desktop\File" & "*.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe", "C:\Users\User\Desktop\File" & "?.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe", "C:\Users\User\Desktop\File*" & ".exe", 1, 1)

well u get my drift.

Thnx in advance,

Aapjuh

[Aapjuh]

weird no permission to edit my own post ^^

Ment:

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-" & "*.exe", "C:UsersUserDesktop" & "Awesomefile.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-" & "?.exe", "C:UsersUserDesktop" & "Awesomefile.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile*" & ".exe", "C:UsersUserDesktop" & "Awesomefile.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile?" & ".exe", "C:UsersUserDesktop" & "Awesomefile.exe", 1, 1)

InetGet("www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile*.exe", "C:UsersUserDesktop*" & "Awesomefile.exe", 1, 1)

[GEOSoft]

Local $s_Url = "www.meow.com/meow/awesomefile-2F3DB458.exe"
Local $s_File = StringRegExpReplace($s_Url, ".+/(.+)", "$1")
InetGet($s_Url, "C:UsersUserDesktop" & $s_File, 1, 1)

Edit: You don't have enough total posts yet to be able to edit your posts. IIRC the magic number is 5.

Edited July 3, 2012 by GEOSoft

[DicatoroftheUSA]

_INetGetSource and stringregexp then followup with inetget

Please don't make malware.

Edited July 3, 2012 by DicatoroftheUSA

[Aapjuh]

Thnx for the reply's

i'll try it 2morrow since im at a diffrent pc atm and the rest of my script aint on this one

@Dictatorofzeusa

nah not making malware,

im making a script to automaticaly install latest ccleaner when no ccleaner is installed, keep a log, run once every sunday and automatically do settings and clean, and dl+place latest ccenhancer ini file.

[DicatoroftheUSA]

It's just the way you described it, usually "Hyperbolic name+random-characters-to-defeat-filebased-scans+.exe"=bad news.

eg.

#include <INet.au3>
$sSite="http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard"
$sSource=_INetGetSource ($sSite)
$aDownload=StringRegExp($sSource,"http://.*ccsetup.*?.exe",3)
MsgBox(0,"Download Link",$aDownload[0])

Edited July 3, 2012 by DicatoroftheUSA

[GEOSoft]

You should never need that _INetGetSource() function any more. Not since InetRead() has been working correctly and that's a few years now.

$s_Str = BinaryToString(InetRead($sSite))

I see no sense including libraries when you don't need most of the functionality and particularily when there are functions native to AutoIt that will handle the job.

[DicatoroftheUSA]

Thanks geo, I don't use it often, didn't even notice.

[Aapjuh]

yay, i tried it and it worked great