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Having done this type of work before for a legitimate purpose, it is almost certainly a python or perl script with a nice library in front of it that makes it e
by 3pt14159 13y ago
Having done this type of work before for a legitimate purpose, it is almost certainly a python or perl script with a nice library in front of it that makes it easy to follow links.
wget is too brittle, not extensible enough, and not as maintainable as a nice python script.
- wslh 13y agoWget is also single threading which is a slow strategy to download pages.
- emmelaich 13y agoProbably; but could be something like lftp. It's name belies its capabilities. Or maybe Kermit? Half-smiley; only if he's a masochist. http://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html http://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html
- jrochkind1 13y agoI believe Manning actually used Windows batch scripting to automate wget, or so the government alleged from forensics at the trial. (I observed a couple days of the trial). Manning did not have the tech skills of Snowden though, she wasn't neccesarily doing things in the most effective or elegant ways, but it worked.