Trying to download a zip file from a weblink with powershell

Question

Ok, I am trying to download a file off of a web link that we use with powershell. I am downloading a zip file where the begining of the name is always the same, but the the mid

Answer 1

If the site has directory browsing enabled (unlikely unless you have control of the site and can turn it on), you can do this:

$url = 'http://blah/blah/blah/'
$wr = iwr $url
$filename = $wr.Links.href | Where {$_ -match 'My File Name.*?\.zip'}
$wr = iwr "$url/$filename"

If the site doesn't have directory browsing enabled then surely it has a page with a link to the ZIP file on it. Download that page and use the same $wr.Links.href trick to get all the links and look for the one that matches "My File Name.*?.zip".