ironymaiden | (Reply)

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dw_news, thank you so much! You saved me a lot of tedium.

I did this on a Mac, and had to troubleshoot my way through a number of details. If you don't mind me leaving some tips for the next person?

The asterisk in the search string is a wild-card, and TextEdit has no idea what to do with it. BBEdit is free and will parse that search string correctly; just make sure you tick the "Grep" option in the find/replace window.

Save the file of URLs anywhere that's convenient for you; it doesn't need to be anywhere in particular.

To install and use wget on OSX:

Open Terminal, and install Homebrew by copying-and-pasting the command at the top of this page;
Still in Terminal, copy-and-paste the first command at the top of this page (that is, c&p the bit after the $), hit return, and do it again with the second command. wget is now installed.
Still in Terminal, type in wget -i but do NOT hit return yet;
In the Finder, drag and drop the file with your URLs into the Terminal window (which should produce a filepath on the command line);
Go back to the Terminal window, and NOW hit return. Your photos/art will be downloaded somewhere-or-other. The filenames are in the Terminal window; Spotlight will help you find them. Mine were in my home directory.