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pull images off of a website automatically?

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Looking to pull images off of a webcam on a website and save them, at some pre-determined interval, like every 5 minutes or so.

This is not for some weird purpose....there is a snowmobile webcam that I'm interested in, and I just want to be able to save the images off of it. So I'm basically looking to replace myself sitting in front of the laptop, hitting F5 and saving the images, because that's not exactly an efficient way for me to spend my day. Any easy way to do this?
Thanks!
 
You want still shots of video? That's gonna be tricky to do, especially if the video is in some kind of proprietary container. Easier would be ripping the video, then grabbing stills from your machine.
 
I'd use wget to pull the image. As for the automation part? In unix you'd use cron. I'm not sure what the equivalent is in Windows. If nothing else you could write a quick script or something.
 
Thanks...I'll try some of those.
This is actually not a video, it's just webcam that updates every minute or so. I'd just like to be able to grab the still images off of the website. I'll fiddle around later update as to how I've made out. Thanks.
 
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