From ae66214af244b90772a3eeeb129210fc9ce25a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 18:28:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add dropbox recursive downloader post --- posts/dropbox_downloader.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/dropbox_downloader.mdwn diff --git a/posts/dropbox_downloader.mdwn b/posts/dropbox_downloader.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e254119 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/dropbox_downloader.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!meta title="Dropbox Recursive Downloader"]] + +I'm working on some analyses for the +[Genetic Analysis Workshop #19](http://www.gaworkshop.org/gaw19/index.html), +which has placed it's data on Dropbox. Unfortunately, Dropbox doesn't +allow for people to download zip archives larger than 1GB, and the +data was made available in an unpacked structure with more than a +hundred files. Some searching indicated that no one had written a +recursive downloader for Dropbox, so 30 minutes of hacking with +[WWW::Mechanize](http://search.cpan.org/~ether/WWW-Mechanize-1.73/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm) +later, I wrote a +[simple recursive downloader for Dropbox](http://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=bin.git;a=blob;f=dropbox_recursive;hb=HEAD) + +Two hours later, all of the files had downloaded. + +[[!tag tech debian genetics]] -- 2.39.2