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Software => Computer programming => Topic started by: PPowerHouseK on November 21, 2009, 09:57:30 AM

Title: How to automate a download with batch?
Post by: PPowerHouseK on November 21, 2009, 09:57:30 AM

Hello all,

I have another question! I would like to know how to make a batch either click a link on a page just opened, or just download a file from a specified web url.

The reason for this is to automate an update process, without asking the user to click the download button.

I was able to find a program to install that would do this, but i am looking for a more batchy version of this. Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: How to automate a download with batch?
Post by: Helpmeh on November 21, 2009, 12:28:20 PM

There is a third-party program that can do what you want, but I can't remember what it is...hopefully another member can provide it.

Title: Re: How to automate a download with batch?
Post by: PPowerHouseK on November 21, 2009, 12:55:45 PM

Thanks for the quick reply! 
I was able to find wget.exe and webfetch.exe, however neither seem to be able to resolve my host, nor simply download the file at the specified path for that matter.

Anyone know of any other command executable programs?

Title: Re: How to automate a download with batch?
Post by: Salmon Trout on November 22, 2009, 01:54:27 AM

please specify the problem you are having with wget & show the code you are using

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S:\>wget http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/l/N/gtotem_baboon.jpg
--2009-11-22 08:53:16--  http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/l/N/gtotem_baboon.jpg
Resolving z.about.com... 207.126.123.29
Connecting to z.about.com|207.126.123.29|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 66800 (65K) [image/jpeg]
Saving to: `gtotem_baboon.jpg'

100%[==========================================>] 66,800       106K/s   in 0.6s

2009-11-22 08:53:17 (106 KB/s) - `gtotem_baboon.jpg' saved [66800/66800]

Also Curl is quite good, and is optimised for getting single files more than wget

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S:\>curl -O http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/l/N/gtotem_baboon.jpg
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 66800  100 66800    0     0  66800      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 82266

Title: Re: How to automate a download with batch?
Post by: PPowerHouseK on November 27, 2009, 01:12:26 PM

Thanks for the speedy replies.
I was able to get wget to work, apparently Comodo thought it would be funny to block it and not say anything.
Either way, it works, and once again all your help was greatly appreciated.

Moderators you can mark this as solved, if desired.