Automatic Downloader Programn

[richofwombwell]

HI everyone, really new at this programming business.

I was wondering if its possible to set up a program so that downloads the same file hosted on a website on schedule monthly and if it would be difficult to program ?

Or better still if there's anything already available.

Cheers

Rich

[rurwin]

Two Linux commands in combination will do what you want.

wget fetches a single html document
cron executes a repetitive task at a configured interval

[OtherCrashOverride]

cron can be used to set the schedule and curl can be used to retrieve the file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

Edit: Guess I need to be faster at posting as I was beaten to the punch.

[richofwombwell]

Brilliant thanks a lot, purchased my raspberry pi guide for dummy's the other day and looking at various sites on coding tutorials looking at python.

Is there some way to automatically boot into using those Linux parameters along with another piece of software on power-up ?

Regards

Richard