WGET ignoring --content-disposition?

Question

I am trying to run a command to download 3000 files in parallel. I am using Cygwin + Windows.

Downloading a single file via WGET in terminal :

wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition --load-cookies cookies.txt \ -p https://username:[e-mail]/folder/document/download/1?type=file

allows me to download the file with ID 1 singularly, in the correct format (as long as --content-disposition is in the command).

I iterate over this REST API call to download the entire folder (3000 files). This works OK, but is quite slow.

FOR /L %i in (0,1,3000) do wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition  --load-cookies cookies.txt \ -p https://username:[e-mail]/folder/document/download/%i?type=file

Now I am trying to run the program in Cygwin, in parallel.

seq 3000 | parallel -j 200 wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition  --load-cookies cookies.txt -p https://username:[e-mail]/folder/document/download/{}?type=file

It runs, but the file-name and format is lost (instead of "index.html", for example, we may get "4@type=file" as the file-name).

Is there a way for me to fix this?

Answer 1

It is unclear what you would like them named. Let us assume you want them named: index.[1-3000].html

seq 3000 | parallel -j 200 wget -O index.{}.html --no-check-certificate --content-disposition  --load-cookies cookies.txt -p https://username:[e-mail]/folder/document/download/{}?type=file

My guess is that it is caused by --content-disposition being experimental, and the wget used by CygWin may be older than the wget used by the FOR loop. To check that run:

wget --version

in CygWin and outside CygWin (ie. where you would run the FOR loop).