[QGIS-Developer] Dowloading zipped files

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Nyall,

On 18/01/19 22:51, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 01:54, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

>> unzip and load automatically the files after download?
> 
> I'm not aware of any existing algorithms which do this - but it sounds
> like a great idea!

Glad you like the idea. Noted here not to forget:
https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21032

> I think we'd need to pair this with another algorithm which would
> allow a list of files to be filtered by a file pattern, to find a
> particular matching file. You'd need some way of getting the correct
> output from the zip file (unless it was consistently named?)

good idea too, would you like to open a ticket? Or maybe it's faster for
you to implement it than to note it down ;)

Cheers.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
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