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Asked: 2026-06-02T07:34:28+00:00

I’m trying to create a script that will download a dynamically built Initializr zip

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I’m trying to create a script that will download a dynamically built Initializr zip archive. Something like:

wget http://www.initializr.com/builder?mode=less&boot-hero&h5bp-htaccess&h5bp-nginx&h5bp-webconfig&h5bp-chromeframe&h5bp-analytics&h5bp-build&h5bp-iecond&h5bp-favicon&h5bp-appletouchicons&h5bp-scripts&h5bp-robots&h5bp-humans&h5bp-404&h5bp-adobecrossdomain&jquery&modernizrrespond&boot-css&boot-scripts

That url works in a browser, but not in a script. In a script it downloads a small portion of the archive, and saves it as builder?mode=less instead of initializr-less-verekia-3.0.zip.

builder?mode=less actually unzips, so it is just a misnamed a zip file. But it’s missing probably 80% of the files it should have.

Anyone know how to script this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    urls contain shell metacharacters, so you’ll have to quote the whole url:

    wget 'your...url...here'

    If the initializr website doesn’t put a proper filename into the HTTP response headers, wget will use a best-guess version based on the url being requested. You can force it to write to a specific filename with

    wget 'your url here' -O name_of_file.zip
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