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I am quite serious here. You already have the URI's, and you should be able to write this script in under 2 minutes. This reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=703585

The amount of time spent defining what you want is surely going to be equal to this.



> It took me exactly 90 seconds to get the request to him

Depending on how you code it's likely to take you more than 90 seconds to: Fire up the editor, switch into mental design mode, create the initial script structure, write the script, figuring out authentication/cookie management issues, picking the right regex (or selector), and then debugging the typo or the 2 unexpected problems that came up (as they will on average).

I think you can see the time and mental differences between that and:

"Here is the URL and credentials, can you log in, visit each page in my gallery and send me a zip with all the pictures?"

In the end you'll be more proud of a script approach, but that doesn't give you what you wanted in the first place-- i.e. avoiding the drain on your time when you have more important things to do.




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