Re: Grabbing Specific Image

People work too hard at copying URLs to disk. Witness:

use LWP::Simple qw(mirror);
mirror("http://www.dimages.example.com/image_sample.gif", "local_file.
+gif");
[download]

What's nice is that this also respects being re-run, caching the local version and properly passing "if-modified-since" to minimize the work if the file hasn't changed.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Comment on Re: Grabbing Specific Image Download Code

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Re^2: Grabbing Specific Image by Anonymous Monk on May 01, 2007 at 17:08 UTC
That works, but how could I send the image file to another directory.	[reply]
Re^3: Grabbing Specific Image by merlyn (Sage) on May 01, 2007 at 17:09 UTC
"local_file.gif" is whatever local path you want. Use "some/other/dir/local_file.gif" if you want. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re^4: Grabbing Specific Image by bart (Canon) on May 02, 2007 at 13:48 UTC
Use "some/other/dir/local_file.gif" if you want. I'm quite certain that the local directory (some/other/dir) already has to exist for this to work. But for some reason, it doesn't give me an error, either.	[reply]