How To Download Software or Patches From Oracle E-Delivery

Have you ever wanted to automatically download all of the patches on an Oracle E-Delivery page? We have, and we thought this script might be useful to others.

Script: get_edelivery.sh_.txt. See attached zipped scripts.

Prerequisites:

• Firefox Browser on your desktop


• Export Domain Cookies Firefox Plugin - You may use Cookie Exporter from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-exporter/

Instructions:

• Visit Oracle E-Delivery.


• Select the software you would like to download and navigate to the patch download page.


• Note the "egroup_aru_number" from the URL.
  
  
  
  • For example, the number is 11249872 for URL http://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=1124....


• Export your browser cookies using the "Export Domain Cookies" Firefox Plugin.


• Copy your cookies file to the server.


• Run the download script from the directory where you are going to download the patches.
  
  
  
  • get_edelivery.sh 11249872 cookies.txt

The script will download all of the patches available via "Download" buttons on the E-Delivery page. At the very end, it will perform a checksum on each file. If a file fails, you can delete the corrupt file and run the script again