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Kevin J. Thomson II
Kevin J. Thomson II

Reputation: 31

Need help creating Cron to download XML file daily

I would like to create a cron job to download an xml file daily at midnight. I want to overwrite any pre-existing file as well.

I tried

1 0 *** usr/bin/wget  http://ace-tv.xyz:25461/xmltv.php?username=xxxx&password=xxxx --output-file=/home/username/myxmlfile.xml

I get a 200 ok for connecting...but nothing downloads.

I think the problem has something to do with the request coming from a php server and I'm not familiar with wget or curl enough to figure it out.

If I paste the URL into a browser the xml schema shows up and I can right click and do "save as" but I need this done by cron.

Any help, greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1177

Answers (1)

PHPLego
PHPLego

Reputation: 279

For this purpose there is "--output-document=.." option:

1 0 *** usr/bin/wget --output-document=/home/username/myxmlfile.xml "http://ace-tv.xyz:25461/xmltv.php?username=xxxx&password=xxxx"

Also please note that you need to use URL string in quotes if it contains characters like "&"

Upvotes: 2

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