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Hi all, I need to be able to automate a changing url so it can be automatically called and downloaded.

  • January 21, 2021
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I am wanting to automate PDF's to be downloaded on a weekly or fortnightly basis. The url changes slightly each week/fortnight: 'https://www.admiralty.co.uk/WeeklyNMs/Year%20-%202021/05wknm21_week05_2021.pdf " for example the '05wknm21_week05_2021' would change to '06wknm21_week06_2021' and so on. There is usually only 1 or 2 numbers in the urls that will change each week going up by a factor of 1. Is there a way I can automate these changes?

 

  • Note I had a different example here but that link had a redirect URL which solved the problem for that particular URL but unfortunately it was not the same for the link above.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • January 21, 2021

Looking at the LINZ website, they have two urls (on this page https://www.linz.govt.nz/sea/maritime-safety/notices-mariners)

 

first one being the current notice: https://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/media/ntm/files/thisweek.pdf?download=1

 

and second being previous editions: https://www.linz.govt.nz/sea/maritime-safety/notices-mariners/previous-ntm-editions

 

This first url has a redirect on it to redirect to the specific latest file. So each time you want to check for a new file, you can just call the first url


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  • January 27, 2021

Looking at the LINZ website, they have two urls (on this page https://www.linz.govt.nz/sea/maritime-safety/notices-mariners)

 

first one being the current notice: https://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/media/ntm/files/thisweek.pdf?download=1

 

and second being previous editions: https://www.linz.govt.nz/sea/maritime-safety/notices-mariners/previous-ntm-editions

 

This first url has a redirect on it to redirect to the specific latest file. So each time you want to check for a new file, you can just call the first url

Thanks for this it was really helpful.


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  • January 27, 2021

Thanks for this it was really helpful.

I had a look at some of the other URL's I need to access from other countries and unfortunately they did not have redirect URLs. Still looking to solve the changing URL issue.