From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: capture, attach, link files from web
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:22:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4bw6ozt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob70pmm5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
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.
Myles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 10:23 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 [this message]
2013-10-08 13:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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