For university I have to stay up-to-date with lecture documents. Since my university doesn't offer RSS feeds, I wrote a little script that collects files from web pages.

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You want this, if you have several web pages that offer downloads that you don't want to check manually. Just register the URL and a CSS snippet to retrieve the files in the attached script and run it – it will fetch all your files. It will store all files in a single place or sort them into respective directories.

Edit the header of the file (providing your data), save it to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x skript and enjoy. It'll look like this:

deborah:~ $> skript
# ComSys:
- already loaded: blatt01.pdf
- already loaded: blatt02.pdf
- already loaded: blatt03.pdf
- already loaded: blatt04.pdf
- already loaded: blatt05.pdf
- already loaded: blatt06.pdf
- already loaded: blatt07.pdf
- already loaded: blatt08.pdf
- already loaded: blatt09.pdf

Please enter the password for 'deborah' on 'Computer Science': 
# Computer Science:
- downloading: /Users/deborah/Desktop/WUM-WS1112-Fallstudie1.pdf ... done.
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Fallstudie2.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-Klausur-SS11.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-Skript-09-WS1112.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung01.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung02.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung03.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung04.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung05.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung06.pdf
- already loaded: WUM-WS1112-Uebung07.pdf