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

#11

Post by sublimepua » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:41 PM UTC

DannyPage wrote: post #8

_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!)

The download links of the page seem irregular, so I was trying to make a list. It looks like he kept all issues ordered on the server under another name though, one that fits this format.

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

#12

Post by sublimepua » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #10

_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

this guy's servers must be crying.

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

#13

Post by funkah » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

If you manage to connect to the site, that is.

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

#14

Post by SquareWheel » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:47 PM UTC

jessepollak wrote: post #3

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

It would be nice if a torrent was available, but they couldn't exactly have it expire after 24 hours.

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

#15

Post by wattjustin » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:53 PM UTC

As a monthly subscriber, this is great to see! Hopefully this will lead some other subscribing as I think the price is well worth it. Wow, I sound like a salesman, but genuinely just a fan of well done work for our community. Thanks!

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

#16

Post by jacquesm » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:53 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

Good deeds rarely go unpunished.

Thank you Lim Cheng Soon, that was very generous of you.

Merry Christmas to you too!

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

#17

Post by hmottestad » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

On a mac (without wget) paste this into the terminal and it'll open up every download in a tab in your default web browser.

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

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

#18

Post by gilligan » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

Hm yeah..cool offer. But we need one of two things..

1. server/bandwidth upgrade 2. time extension of the offer beyond 24h

Or actually.. ideally both :)

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

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Post by Dobbs » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #10

_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

seq -w 19 | xargs -I{} -P4 -n1 wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip

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

#20

Post by zfran » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

Put a torrent up before your server melts down.