The Alternative - Scripting the Bad Jojo

There is various ways to download.

A) You can download by using your browser and choose Save.

B) You can also use download managers like Down Them All, ReGet or GetRight and even extend it with download lists.

C) You can also use an advanced Offline Browser like Offline Explorer EE, BlackWidow, HTTrack, HTTP Weazel or Teleport Pro. And you can even spice it up with filters, depth, HAM and macros while the program crawls like a spider over the website of choice.

State of the art tools all of them, doing what they do best. But they all have overhead. Either you have to click too many pages, or you will have to hand pick every download with the download managers or your "spider" traverses too many pages to download only what you want.

What you need is an alternative

The alternative to choose is:

Scripting is only something for you if you have skills. You need skills in programming, you need to have knowledge about http/url's and html. Knowledge about JavaScript and Ajax is an advantage. And especially knowledge about regular expressions is very beneficial to have.


These skills are all learnable. Here on MG you can read about regular expressions and learn them here in article 1, 2, 3 and 4 and you can also gain knowledge about URL's.

But before you go all cold and say that this is way above your head or maybe even too tedious, then you should take some time to watch a small 3:39min video of a tiny script (62 lines) which makes some things easier. The script is not flashy or anything, but it may inspire you.

Download Scripting.badjojo.XViD.zip (6.26Mb)

Thanks to _Store_ for keeping Perl in the focus area and thanks to lobos for script inspiration.