Command-line downloads from sites which require login
…also known as “Solving the Working from Home bandwidth problem”. A common
task I perform as part of my job is to download large files from websites onto
a server. Often my aim is to download such files directly onto the Linux servers
residing in the datacentre, and most of the time this is straight-forward: open
an ssh connection to the server, and pass the url to the wget command. The
file is promptly downloaded directly to the server at several Gigabits per second.