Divine Lunacy

It has been a long time since my last real font downloading spree ( 4 years, actually ). As of recent, I decided it was time to download more. 1001freefonts.com seems like a good font website… Unless you want to pay for an archive, you have to download all two-thousand-something fonts individually, or do you? Lets think back to search engines 101… How does a www spider find so many web pages? Simple! It follows all the links from a given page. Any www spider can easily index all the fonts. ( There is no robots.txt file restricting them. ). So all I need now is a spider? Yeah, basically. I just happen to have the latest version of wget installed ( what self-respecting *nix user doesn’t? ). Among wget’s many options is: –recursive, which tells wget to follow all the links it encounters. ( Restricted to a single domain unless otherwise instructed. ). Running wget --recursive http://www.1001freefonts.com will download the whole website, but I don’t want the whole website, do I? I certainly don’t want images, web pages, or the mac fonts. This is where more of wget’s options come in handy. When I was finished creating my command line, it looked something like this: wget http://www.1001freefonts.com/ --continue - -nc --recursive -U "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050620 Firefox/1.0.5" --exclude-directories=http://1001freefonts.com/macfonts --ignore-tags=link,img -A zip,ttf -R gif,jpg,png,html,htm,sit -A and -R are allowed and restricted filetypes. I told wget to allow only zip and ttf files. I also told it not to bother with the macfonts directory. Now I have a very nice font directory building up. When that finishes, all I’ll need to do is unzip several thousand archives. ( unzip * ) All Hail wget!!!!!!!11

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