From: Raymond O'Connor <nappin713@...>
Date: 2009-08-29T06:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Mechanize Download File w/o Loading it All in Memory

Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 20:07 , Raymond O'Connor wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to get Mechanize to download a csv file, without  
>> loading
>> it all into memory first?  As I understand even if I used a pluggable
>> parser, it will still download the whole file into memory before  
>> saving
>> it to a file?
> 
> I don't actually know if this will solve your problem as I've not used
> it, but this looks like it is on the right track:
> 
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'mechanize'
>>
>> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
>> agent.pluggable_parser.pdf = WWW::Mechanize::FileSaver
>> agent.get('http://example.com/foo.pdf')
> 
> then again, it might not. mechanize doesn't sound like a very good
> tool to be using for csv's in the first place as it can't actually DO
> much with them. Why not use a more straightforward tool like curl?

It's a whole process just to get to the page where you can download the 
csv file.  I have to log in to the site, request the file, etc.  which 
is why I was hoping I could do it in mechanize
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