Re: fetching files with javascript Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'If your lynx install has an associated

editor, then when on the file name line, execute its equal for cutting
text.'
	That takes time.  I want to turn
20260816_wesun_politics_chat_democrats_take_lessons_from_the_primaries_set_2028_calendar.mp3?t=progseg&e=nx-s1-5878183&p=10&seg=0&d=287&size=4600938&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer
into
20260816_wesun_politics_chat_democrats_take_lessons_from_the_primaries_set_2028_calendar.mp3
	ctrl-u clears the field then I have to enter something.  I
could mark 20260816_wesun_politics_chat_democrats_take_lessons_from_the_primaries_set_2028_calendar.mp3
with gpm then paste that in, but that's work.  I don't want to enter
text of my choice, such as 'politicschat.mp3' because that doesn't
correlate with the original file.
	I listen to NPR shows by running a script that fetches every
segment of the current episode.  That script truncates the file name
before it downloads them.  I listen by running a different script that
plays the files listed in the page of the current episode in order.  I
do the same for 'Marketplace'.  Retaining the name makes it easier to
correlate a segment with its page.

	Quoth Chime Hart: 'I think the scripting option would be in
cleaning up a directory of files with those extra symbols.'
	Yes.  If I didn't run a script to fetch all of the segments of
a show I would just download the ones I want without editing the file
names as I went.  Then I would run the script to fix them up.  I do
this with my local paper, the 'Albuquerque Journal'.  Its URIs look
like:
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/nonprofit-fights-for-mental-health-services-for-first-responders/3097204
- the last part is an opaque number, the previous a descriptive title.
I download the files I want, run a script that picks out the
descriptive title for the file name - and also appends .html so lynx
renders them thusly.
	BTW one of the great things about lynx is that it saves files
as the last non-empty entry in the URI, even if a / ends it.  The
other browsers I have used make up nonsense strings.  Why they all
don't - I don't know.  Has lynx patented it?

	Quoth Chime Hart: 'Maybe s similar strategy could be imployed
for items downloaded from youtube.'
	I do that.  I'll share my script if you like.

russell bell