Aug 26, 2019 06:12 PM
Is there a way to do a mass download of photos from my airtable? The Bulk Upload worked well, now I need to do the reverse! Thanks, All
Mar 23, 2021 05:22 PM
LOL - And he didn’t use any code despite the fact that only he and only three other people on the planet can read it! That’s both the beauty and the irony of his bulk download approach.
@ScottWorld you need to retract the FYI and buy this clever dude a sandwich.
Mar 23, 2021 05:28 PM
Lol, it still didn’t work!
Mar 23, 2021 05:31 PM
I think you have some bad characters in the command line.
wget </users
is not right
Mar 23, 2021 05:34 PM
That’s the full path to my file. It’s the same path that made step #1 work properly.
I really don’t care. I was just seeing how far I could get in those directions.
Mar 23, 2021 05:35 PM
I’ve never seen a path in Linux that begins with “<”.
Mar 23, 2021 05:40 PM
I just copied & pasted what the other guy wrote above. He has the “<” in his message above.
Anyways, I’m unsubscribing from this thread now. This is so unimportant, and I have REAL Airtable work to do. :winking_face:
Mar 23, 2021 07:23 PM
I think there’s supposed to be a space after each “<”. His example doesn’t include one before the filename, but I think that’s a typo. Try:
xargs < wget < [insert path here]
That doesn’t solve the “No such file or directory” issue, though.
Mar 30, 2021 07:06 AM
This is why I think that most people’s idea of what is and isn’t “code” is too narrow.
May 23, 2021 10:22 PM
Sorry about that, I’m not here often, and I didn’t realize this was a no-code community. Or perhaps the degree to which it is.
I’ve mostly been browsing in the Airtable automations/scripting area of this community, where most people seem to have a JS background.
May 23, 2021 10:30 PM
Sorry about that. I didn’t realize this was a no-code area.
I’m sure it’s moot now, but I had a typo. It should be xargs wget < sources.txt
.
In your case, xargs wget < ~/Desktop/sources.txt
You’d also need wget
if you don’t have it. I forget if it’s native on MacOS (brew install wget
).
Anyway, apologies again for the confusion and technical approach.