So I love the fact that The Brunei Times has a great looking website, started Twittering, had video news and most importantly has an E-Paper which is an exact replica of their actual newspaper available online. It’s great that they allow people to read the papers in such a way, but my distaste for Flash led me to be curious of how to get the actual images displayed for offline reading. While looking in Firefox’s web cache I found the URL of the pages:
Page 1 default view: http://www.bt.com.bn/e-paper/images/page1.jpg
Page 1 zoomed in: http://www.bt.com.bn/e-paper/images/page1_zoom.jpg
Armed with that knowledge I started building a script that would let me download these files onto my computer for reading at a later time and possibly even copying the files to my phone and reading it there.
Requirements:
- Mac/OS X
- wget for Mac/OS X
- Mac download script
- Ensure that the wget file (not folder) is in the same directory as the download script
- Windows
- wget for Windows
- Windows download script
- Both wget binary and dependencies are required. Extract the dependencies put it in the bin folder that wget.exe is in.
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Ensure that the wget folder is in the same directory as the download script
- Linux
- wget and Bash shell: This is typically not needed, but check your distribution documentation on how to install applications
- Linux download script
Usage:
- Double click the download script to download the news for the day. This will download the news into a folder of the given date
- Open the folder and read the news
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