I want to build a script that downloads and loads the XML data that is published at the following link(s): http://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/CPI_YYYYMMDD.xml The day of the month is not consistent and could vary anywhere from the 12th to the 23rd, so I tried LWP and embedded it in a for loop that started on the 30th, subtracted 1 each time, and exited the loop when it succeeded in downloading the file. for example, the most recent links are:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/CPI_20150916.xml

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/CPI_20151015.xml

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/CPI_20151117.xml

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/CPI_20151216.xml

As you can see, the date in the URL is not the same each month, and i need to download almost 3 years worth, so I am thinking that there is a quick and dirty solution in Perl to do this. thanks for any help.

In reply to Automated downloads from a date based URL by justin423

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