Re: How do I read this download button?

ToddAndMargo via curl-users <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:54:34 -0700
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 7/24/23 13:32, Dan Fandrich via curl-users wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 01:25:28PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via curl-users wrote:
>> I am not sure what that gives me?
>>
>>     $ curl --remote-name --remote-header-name https://download.toolslib.net/download/file/1/2697?s=44UKj76LIX5pK8CEccNxAvjeAKhb2tBo
>> -o -
> 
> The -o there un-does the --remote-name and is giving an error message; drop
> it. --remote-header-name will use the file name provided by the server in an
> HTTP header. However, I don't see such a header in that URL, and that URL
> actually doesn't look like it points to any kind of download, so it's probably
> not the one you want.
> 
>> Also, how do I get/find the
>>
>>       ?s=44UKj76LIX5pK8CEccNxAvjeAKhb2tBo
>>
>> from
>>
>>       https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/files/2697/
> 
> Use an HTML parser.
> 
> Dan

What am I missing?

$  curl --remote-name --remote-header-name 
https://download.toolslib.net/download/file/1/2697
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
Speed
   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- 
--:--:--     0

$  curl --remote-name --remote-header-name 
https://download.toolslib.net/download/file/1/2697?s=44UKj76LIX5pK8CEccNxAvjeAKhb2tBo
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
Speed
   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- 
--:--:--     0


Looking at the

 
view-source:https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/files/2697/

Ah Ha!!  Figure it out!!!

Parsing through the source code, looking for `?s=` it changes for each 
time you load the page.  All I have to do is extract the `"s=...` and I 
can download the file I want.  (Well before the scramble expires.)

$ curl --header 'Host: download.toolslib.net' 
'https://download.toolslib.net/download/file/1/2697?s=a2bhDHNQhWOv2NGyTwo0qV2qVOG0wrTj' 
--output eraseme.exe


Thank you!

-T

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