Automator scrambles download order

[jklupfel]

Hi

I have 20 Excel sheets with about 200 links to images each.
I created a Automator workflow like this.

Get specified text
extract urls from text
download urls

so far so good. it all works, but automator does not download the images in order.
Rather it scrambles them...
so if my links are
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Automator downloads them like this

1237465

Does anyone know an easy way to download the images in the right order?
I am really stuck and would appreciate any help i can get.

Thanks

 

[Kaveman]

I doubt this is Automator, but some files taking longer than others to download.

 

[jklupfel]

Hi Kaveman

Is there a way to split the download?
Currently i paste 100 or so urls into the get specified text field.
Ideally automator would take the first url, download it then take the next one download it and continue to keep on going.

but from what i can tell it takes all of them and downloads them all, which is what scrambles them...

 

[Kaveman]

Thats not how Automator works. It doesn't do the work, it passing the list to the workflow and the workflow does it. The workflow is a close unit, often a part of a larger App or Framework. In this case probably WebKit.

What you are talking about is something with callbacks, and Automator won't do that. I'm not even sure AppleScript will do what you are wanting.

I don't know what your usage is but I advise great caution with automated downloading, are you aware of the Aaron Swartz story? Very sad, facing 30yrs prison for doing nothing "illegal".