URLChaser by l.programming

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Tweak it, list it, get it

. Hierarchical treatment for any number of levels
. Five languages support for Day-and Month names in dates

. Add list to list up until 20 000 items before saving to file

Chasing letters & numbers

Imagine you are a web graphics collector. You find a web page -

"http://www.webgraphshack.net/icons_10/b/index.htm"

You type away in your browser's address bar and realize there are 10 departments "icons_01-icons_10", each having galleries "a-z" of icons. That's 260 galleries right there. But wait - you check further: Every gallery carries 20 images, and you realize each image is also numbered, one of them looking like this -

Alphanumerical sample (three levels depth).

"http://www.webgraphshack.net/icons_04/e/20.gif"

O my, compute: 5200 ICONS!

What now? Import the image's address to URLChaser. In no time, you will have a list of 5200 direct links to all of the images.

Then feed URLChaser's HTML file to your offline browser and do what you will - the job's done: First by URLChaser, then by your downloader.

As you have already realized by this sample, the goings-on under the hood of URLChaser is not quite as simple as it may appear: The sample is "deep", or hierarchically, ordered in three levels. For every level "icons_XX" there are sub-levels "a-z", each of them in turn having sub-levels "01-20"...

URLChaser handles any depth - any number of levels.

To get a feel for what an alphanumerical list looks like, view this sample HTML file generated by URLChaser.

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