collecting music from the Free Music Archive

Use lynx -dump -listonly -nonumbers foo.bar | grep -e music/download | wget --content-disposition -i -, where foo.bar is the URL of the page containing the music to be downloaded.

Attention

The Free Music Archive is closing, so these instructions are no longer useful. Refer to Archiveteam's page for further information.

Warning

Be polite when using this script on multiple pages in a short period of time.

explanation

• lynx -dump -listonly -nonumbers foo.bar gets a list of URLs from foo.bar.
• grep -e music/download returns URLs containing music/download.
• wget --content-disposition -i - retrieves music files.

licensing

No rights reserved: CC0 1.0.

prior work

• The --content-disposition and -i options for Wget were introduced to me by an answer on Stack Overflow by dim-0 and an answer on Super User by EightBitTony.
• The -dump and -listonly options for Lynx were introduced to me by an answer on Stack Exchange by michas.