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I am working on a remote Ubuntu system. I want to download a zip file from the website mentioned below to the remote system. So, I used w3m to do so as I am accessing the remote system via command line. I ran the command: w3m http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/ which takes me to the website and I select the zip file "glove.6B.zip" which starts downloading the moment I click it and I can see the download process progressing.

The download process finishes successfully and then the downloaded zip and the files contained in it is displayed:

Archive:  /home/ubuntu/.w3m/w3mtmp2061-0.zip

  Length      Date     Time    Name
 ---------  ---------- -----   ----
171350079   2014-08-04 20:15   glove.6B.50d.txt
347116733   2014-08-04 20:14   glove.6B.100d.txt
693432828   2014-08-04 20:14   glove.6B.200d.txt
1037962819  2014-08-27 19:19   glove.6B.300d.txt
---------                     -------
2249862459                     4 files

The display above shows the location of the zip file in my remote system. But, when I quit w3m and go to the path /home/ubuntu/.w3m, the file w3mtmp2061-0.zip is not present there. I read somewhere that w3m saves temporary files which are deleted the moment you close w3m. How do I get the downloaded zip from the the above mentioned website to my remote system via command line. What am I doing wrong?

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Meha
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Once you've opened the link and w3m is letting you browse the contents, you can use Esc-s to save the current "document" (in this case, the zip file).

If you know ahead of time that you'll want to save the endpoint of a link, you can use either a or Esc-RET to save the link.

(Source: The w3m manual)

Kevin Bowen
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Jeremy Penner
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I suggest just using wget to download the .zip file as follows:

wget http://nlp.stanford.edu/data/glove.6B.zip
edwinksl
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For users who want to download from pages which require cookies. Use w3m -

sudo apt intstall w3m

To download a file which requires authentication -
First authenticate in w3m by logging in, then download the file which requires cookies as -

w3m -dump_source http://nlp.stanford.edu/data/glove.6B.zip >| glove.6B.zip

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