Comments on: Greasemonkey script to fix SourceForge download links

By: dossy

dossy — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:06:13 +0000

But if you link directly to the mirror, I think SF’s download count stats won’t be accurate (may not be a big deal for you).

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:03:17 +0000

Interesting. That was the last place I was thinking of when I threw this together, though, because there you're at least prepared to go through the additional steps. What gets me every time is when a project's website has a link that looks like it downloads a package, and you copy the link (that ends in ".tar.gz" or ".rpm" even!) and paste it into a wget command on the remote box you're working on, and you get an HTML page. Flooterbuck's page is the example I kept testing on (see the download link), although it's even worse when the website you're looking at isn't in the SourceForge domain.

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:32:29 +0000

Hm. I never noticed that when I first became a subscriber. I wonder if it’s new, or if I just missed it.

By: dossy

dossy — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:19:57 +0000

Actually, you do — from the “Files” section on a SF project, if you’re a subscriber, it puts a little “[direct download]” hyperlink next to the file. It’s quite convenient for automating file pulls from SF projects, and the like.

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:19:53 +0000

But the links aren’t written that way from the website, you still have to construct them yourself. It’s mostly good for batch downloading and things like that, according to their documetnation (unless they’ve changed something in the past 3 months)

By: dossy

dossy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:11:11 +0000

If you’re a paid SourceForge subscriber, one of the “perks” is a direct-download link. I guess SourcePlease will be useful for those folks who aren’t subscribers, though. Cool!

By: brad

brad — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:00:22 +0000

YES!!@!

By: zhixel

zhixel — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:15:28 +0000

RAGH YES

By: citizenx

citizenx — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:15:07 +0000

This is what lazy-as-virtue is about, sir. Well done.