[Solved] Download files with specific extension from a website [closed]

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library(stringr)

# Get the context of the page
thepage = readLines('https://data.giss.nasa.gov/impacts/agmipcf/agmerra/')

# Find the lines that contain the names for netcdf files
nc4.lines <- grep('*.nc4', thepage) 

# Subset the original dataset leaving only those lines
thepage <- thepage[nc4.lines]

#extract the file names
str.loc <- str_locate(thepage,'A.*nc4?"')

#substring
file.list <- substring(thepage,str.loc[,1], str.loc[,2]-1)

# download all files
for ( ifile in file.list){
 download.file(paste0("https://data.giss.nasa.gov/impacts/agmipcf/agmerra/",
                      ifile),
               destfile=ifile, method="libcurl")

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solved Download files with specific extension from a website [closed]