I have found this usefull vbscript on the web to automate file download.
function download(sFileURL, sLocation)
'create xmlhttp object
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
'get the remote file
objXMLHTTP.open "GET", sFileURL, false
'send the request
objXMLHTTP.send()
'wait until the data has downloaded successfully
do until objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 : wscript.sleep(1000) : loop
'if the data has downloaded sucessfully
If objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
'create binary stream object
Set objADOStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
objADOStream.Open
'adTypeBinary
objADOStream.Type = 1
objADOStream.Write objXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
'Set the stream position to the start
objADOStream.Position = 0
'create file system object to allow the script to check for an existing file
Set objFSO = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'check if the file exists, if it exists then delete it
If objFSO.Fileexists(sLocation) Then objFSO.DeleteFile sLocation
'destroy file system object
Set objFSO = Nothing
'save the ado stream to a file
objADOStream.SaveToFile sLocation
'close the ado stream
objADOStream.Close
'destroy the ado stream object
Set objADOStream = Nothing
'end object downloaded successfully
End if
'destroy xml http object
Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
End function
download "http://remote-location-of-file", "C:\name-of-file-and-extension"
Is there a way to force it to parse the url and for example download *.exe file in some web location? like this:
URL: http://examplesite.com/files/
file0001.exe
because I have a URL which has a file which name changes during time. It has .exe extension.
I have both http and ftp protocols enabled over it and ftp has no authentication (free).