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Re: [O] capture, attach, link files from web


From: Myles English
Subject: Re: [O] capture, attach, link files from web
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:22:46 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.5; emacs 24.3.1

address@hidden 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



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