All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

Downloads seem to have slowed to the point where one 27.9 Mb issue is taking 1hr and 7 min to download. Looks like all of HN is taking advantage of this promo!

BTW, the magazines are beautifully done, kudos!

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#5

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

jessepollak wrote: post #3

awesome! any chance there's an easy way to bulk download all of them?

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Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#6

Post by _ques » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

  for i in `seq -w 19`; do 
  echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; 
  done | xargs wget

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#7

Post by joe_bleau » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

jessepollak wrote: post #3

awesome! any chance there's an easy way to bulk download all of them?

Here's the list for wget I came up with:

  http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupstories.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-thedebate.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue019.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue018.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue017.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue016.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue015.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue014.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue013.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue012.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue011.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue010.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue009.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue008.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue007.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue006.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue005.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue004.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue003.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue002.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue001.zip

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#8

Post by DannyPage » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

_ques wrote: post #6

for i in `seq -w 19`; do echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; done | xargs wget

Thanks for this!

Considering how quickly it took someone to write a script to download them all (It is "Hacker" News, after all), I don't know why they didn't just release them all in one Zip file anyway.

Or maybe someone could put a torrent together, given how much they are getting hammered. (2 hours for a 15.6 MB file, yikes!)

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#9

Post by sublimepua » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:40 PM UTC

The servers are getting slashdotted. Anyone who has gotten all of them downloaded feel like making a torrent? Not for the purposes of piracy, of course, but just to spare this poor guy's bandwidth.

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#10

Post by philfreo » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:40 PM UTC

_ques wrote: post #6

for i in `seq -w 19`; do echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; done | xargs wget

In parallel:

    for i in `seq -w 19`; do 
      wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip" &
    done
    wait