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Old 03-11-2011, 11:50 PM
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders


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Originally Posted by gxdata View Post
They seem to be switching from GZ to text mode quite often, so the test for the "[{" characters will be needed at each new catalog fetch. I'm not sure what they are doing with the Series JSON files.
With the batch file downloader, I've been using:

Code:
wget --accept "text/html;level=1" -O index.json http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex
This seems to work at forcing their server to spit back the text only. (wget allows you to mess with the headers if you need to )
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