PowerShell - Download file(s) from URL that does not include file name in the URL
Solution 1
$source = "http://www.website.com/file/someFile.txt"
$Filename = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($source)
$dest = "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Downloads\$Filename"
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile($source, $dest)
Solution 2
I got the same error as you described when I called:
$source = "http://www.website.com/file/[fileID]"
$dest = "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Downloads\"
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile($source, $dest)
But when I changed $dest to contain the full path(including the name of the file it worked)
$dest = "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Downloads\[aFileName]"
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Updated on April 20, 2020Comments
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Admin about 4 years
I've searched around and tried a few things and have not gotten it to work. The link would be for example:
http://www.website com/file/[fileID]
(e.g.http://www.website com/file/1wA5fT
) and a box would appear whether to save the file(s) or not.I have tried this, from what I can remember and it did not work.
$source = "http://www.website.com/file/[fileID]" $dest = "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Downloads\" $wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $wc.DownloadFile($source, $dest)
Edit:
I am able to correctly download the file if I put a filename for the destination. However I need to extract the filename from e.g.
<a href="http://www.website.com/file/[fileID]">Filename.txt</a></li></div></ul>
After I get this singled out how would I single out the filename into $Filename?
$source = "http://www.website.com/file/[fileID]" $dest = "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Downloads\$Filename" $wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $wc.DownloadFile($source, $dest)
This code would work then.