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Get more tle data access from celestrak.com, my note. Initial version is very early, upload to gist is late
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Use command to get the list of tle txt urls:

wget --spider -r -l1 https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ 2>&1|grep '^.*http.*elements\/.*\.txt$' >satellite.txt
  • 2023-05-24: webpage has changed its front-end style.
wget --spider -r -l1 https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/index.php?FORMAT=2le 2>&1|grep '^.*http.*elements\/.*\.txt$' >satellite.txt

(not working)

wget --spider -r -l1 https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ 2>&1|awk '/^.*http.*elements\/.*\.txt$/{print $3}' >satellite.txt
  • 2023-05-24: webpage has changed its front-end style.

Command with awk is the final result.grep is test of regexp

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