need help writing a small app

[rjcoolpix880]

im a teachers assistant and i was wondering if i could write a small application that would go to a specific web page and download and rename a file. all of my students have a specific link that they have to post to (ex: www.myschool.edu/studentid/assignment1.jpg )so i would have to go in and write some code that would download the assignment from that site. i would need the file name renamed to their student id and save it to my computer. i figure that i could then do a find and replace to change it to "assignment2.jpg" but it should work well and save me a bundle of time. i have hand coded websites before but never anything like this. i dont even know where to start. any suggestions?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Make a quick HTML page that contains all the links (eg, www.myschool.edu/studentid1/assignment1.jpg, www.myschool.edu/studentid2/assignment1.jpg ) and then just hit it with wget

- M4H

 

[rjcoolpix880]

thanks thats such a simple solution. the only difference is that i use "down them all", a firefox addon, to download and rename all the files.

 

[SoftwareEng]

MetaProducts.com's Offline Explorer. The software type is mass downloader or site downloader if you need another one.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: rjcoolpix880
thanks thats such a simple solution. the only difference is that i use "down them all", a firefox addon, to download and rename all the files.

"Quick and Dirty" works for more than just sex.

Cheers!

- M4H