[Nottingham] Downloading multiple images from a website

[Roger Light]

> I want to steal all the files from (not the actual website)
> 
> http://www.website.com/images/random404img/
> 
> with the filenames 0.jpg to 999.jpg but acknowledging that not all of
> these will exist and not wanting to hammer his bandwidth so I want to
> make sure that I wait a reasonable amount of time between each one.

Something like

for i in $(seq 0 999); do
    wget http://blah/${i}.jpg
    sleep 3s
done

should do it.

Alternatively:

wget --wait 10 --random-wait `for i in $(seq 0 999); do echo
"http://blah/${i}.jpg; done`

I've not tested either of those, so feel free to pick holes.

Cheers,

Roger