User:McZusatz/SuperSimpleMWdownload.sh

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#!/bin/sh

#//
#// Input: files.txt (in pwd) including all files to download.
#//        * They need "File:" as prefix
#//        * Only one file per line
#//

#//
#// Output: All downloaded files are put in (pwd)/FileDownloads/*
#//

cat files.txt | while read file ; do
    curl --silent -G --data "action=query" --data "prop=imageinfo" --data "format=xml" --data "iiprop=url" --data-urlencode "titles=${file}" http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php  | sed 's/.*url="http:\/\/upload/http:\/\/upload/g' | sed 's/".*//g' | wget --restrict-file-names=nocontrol --limit-rate=600K -P FileDownloads -i -
done