Re: Downloading TSV files

[email protected] (Bjoern Hoehrmann) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:38:32 +0200
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* Meir Guttman wrote:
>I have also to warn you that this site is notoriously finicky. It is
>probably overloaded (and overwhelmed) by users. Lately I experience
>many types of false downloads and other problems that require repeated
>downloading trials. (I'll supply the file integrity check.)

Well, that might be the only problem, I had no trouble downloading the
file using `wget --save-cookies=cookies --load-cookies=cookies --keep-
session-cookies ...` except that you apparently first have to open the
HTML version of the table and then immediately thereafter download the
TSV version (that might take a few tries, whether I use wget or the web
browser).
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