How to pull a file and save it via cronjob

[madmatt69]

Heya everyone,

I think this is relatively easy but I'm not quite sure how to do it.

There's a datafeed I'd like to download and save on my server every 30 minutes. I can setup the cronjob via cpanel no problem, but I'm unsure of what command I need to tell it to download and save the datafeed.

Some thing like "Copy [site.com...] datafeed.txt"

Any ideas on the correct way to do this?

One option I was thinking of is making a php script that downloads the file, and then the cronjob calls that script every 30 minutes or something. Is that the better way to do it?

Thanks for the help!

[Discovery]

this will use to download the file
wget [site.com...]

use this in ur contab file

5 * * * * wget [site.com...]

please make the necessary changes, how frequently u have to save the file. Remember first time it will save datafeed.asp and next time datafeed.asp.1, datafeed.asp.2 & so on