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Is there a way to load a q-script from the internet without saving it at disk?

Posted by vivo on July 30, 2022 at 12:00 am
Currently if I want to import a q-script, e.g. sp.q, from the internet, I need to save it to disk and then load it.
```
system "wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KxSystems/kdb/master/sp.q";
```
\l sp.q

But if I want to do the l to the url directly without saving sp.q to disk, it doesn’t work:
```
\l https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KxSystems/kdb/master/sp.q
```
If I want to import the q-script without saving it, the only way I can do is to parse sp.q paragraph by paragraph manually:
```
myText:system "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KxSystems/kdb/master/sp.q";
```
value “” sv myText[til 5]; // import the 1st paragraph
value “” sv myText[5 _ til 10]; // import the 2nd paragraph

Is there a better way to do this?
vivo replied 8 months, 1 week ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
1 Reply

davidcrossey

Member
July 31, 2022 at 12:00 am
Hi vivo,

To load a q script it needs to be loaded from the local disk.

You could also use .Q.hg to download the file directly into your process with either of the following as examples:
```
q)"rn" vs .Q.hg `:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KxSystems/kdb/master/sp.q 
/or 

q)ssr[;"rn";""] .Q.hg `:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KxSystems/kdb/master/sp.q
```
However with this approach you’d need a lot of customization per code block to execute it locally.

If you are downloading the script to the local q process, why would you not store it on disk anyway? For example, re-loading later instead of multiple downloads.

Kind regards,

David

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