From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: capture, attach, link files from web
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:31:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pprf28jj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r4bw6ozt.fsf@gmail.com
Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:
> eric@...net writes:
>
>>>> I've often thought it would be nice to link to images in an org file
>>>> with http: links, then at some arbitrary point in time call a
>>>> hypothetical org-localize-external-resources command. That command would
>>>> wget all the external resources, put them somewhere local, and switch
>>>> the links to the file: type. Just a thought.
>
> How about a derived export backend with a filter that does a wget and
> rewrites the links?
>
> One problem could be what if a wget fails? As I am finding with my
> implementation, some websites only allow browserlike access.
That's kind of why I think it would be better as a standalone
interactive function, rather than an export preprocessing thingummy.
You'd run it first, with timeouts and error messages, etc, and then
export when you're done.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-07 11:49 capture, attach, link files from web Myles English
2013-10-07 13:08 ` Oleh
2013-10-08 10:43 ` Myles English
2013-10-08 15:28 ` Oleh
2013-10-07 15:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-07 17:49 ` Myles English
2013-10-08 1:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-08 10:22 ` Myles English
2013-10-08 13:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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