Re^3: i need help to download text data from ensemble for a project

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^2: i need help to download text data from ensemble for a project
in thread i need help to download text data from ensemble for a project

My point was to check the terms of service

[aaabc]

ok this is not related to problem really, anyway correct me if i am mistaken but if you are trying to say that what i do, may be illegal in terms of service. no it is not. just there is not much demand for alignments of 6 primates (there many many different alignments) that they just dont provide servives to download as a whole. this is science and information is open to public.

[Anonymous Monk]

Ok, so I go to http://www.ensembl.org/ to check the TOS and I see

Fetch only the data you want from our public database, using the Perl API

So here you go

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
use autodie qw/ system /;
my $ensemblUrl = '......r='; ## rearrange like this
my $start_range = 4953971;
my $end_range = 5753970;
my $range_increment = $end_range - $start_range;
for my $times ( 0 .. 10 ){
    my $range = $start_range.'-'.$end_range;
    my $rangefile = "$range.txt";
    system qw/ wget -c /,
        '-O', $rangefile,
        $ensemblUrl.$range ;
    $start_range = $end_range ;
    $end_range = $start_range + $range_increment;
}

[Anonymous Monk]

Bah! Forget it! As Marshalls points out this would violate the TOS, and that is not nice. Don't use this code.