Simple Swift file download with URL

Question

So I have the URL as string (in this case a JPG but would like a general procedure for any file type if possible) and I have the file path as string where I want to save the fil

Answer 1

With Swift 4, the code will be:

if let url = URL(string: myURLstring) {
    let imageDataFromURL = try Data(contentsOf: url)
}