Download a file with VBS

Question

Ive got a VBS Script that,generates an url to download a file from a server on my network. I now need to download the file to \"C:\\rWallpaper\\wallpaper.png\",

Answer 1

This post is old, but the error in the first code answer is that you need privileges to write at C:\,Try at desktop or %temp%, it works.

Answer 2

The above answer threw the error Write to file failed. Code: 800A0BBC for me, however this worked:

 HTTPDownload http://www.emagcloud.com/europeansealing/FSA_ESA_Compression_Packing_Technical_Manual_v3/pubData/source/images/pages/page10.jpg", "C:\"

Where

Sub HTTPDownload( myURL, myPath )
' This Sub downloads the FILE specified in myURL to the path specified in myPath.
'
' myURL must always end with a file name
' myPath may be a directory or a file name; in either case the directory must exist
'
' Written by Rob van der Woude
' http://www.robvanderwoude.com
'
' Based on a script found on the Thai Visa forum
' http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21832

    ' Standard housekeeping
    Dim i, objFile, objFSO, objHTTP, strFile, strMsg
    Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8

    ' Create a File System Object
    Set objFSO = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )

    ' Check if the specified target file or folder exists,
    ' and build the fully qualified path of the target file
    If objFSO.FolderExists( myPath ) Then
        strFile = objFSO.BuildPath( myPath, Mid( myURL, InStrRev( myURL, "/" ) + 1 ) )
    ElseIf objFSO.FolderExists( Left( myPath, InStrRev( myPath, "\" ) - 1 ) ) Then
        strFile = myPath
    Else
        WScript.Echo "ERROR: Target folder not found."
        Exit Sub
    End If

    ' Create or open the target file
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile( strFile, ForWriting, True )

    ' Create an HTTP object
    Set objHTTP = CreateObject( "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1" )

    ' Download the specified URL
    objHTTP.Open "GET", myURL, False
    objHTTP.Send

    ' Write the downloaded byte stream to the target file
    For i = 1 To LenB( objHTTP.ResponseBody )
        objFile.Write Chr( AscB( MidB( objHTTP.ResponseBody, i, 1 ) ) )
    Next

    ' Close the target file
    objFile.Close( )
End Sub

Answer 3

Try:

CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "curl -o "Path and filename"

Answer 4

You can download using XMLHTTP and leverage an ADO stream to write the binary data;

dim xHttp: Set xHttp = createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
dim bStrm: Set bStrm = createobject("Adodb.Stream")
xHttp.Open "GET", "http://example.com/someimage.png", False
xHttp.Send

with bStrm
    .type = 1 '//binary
    .open
    .write xHttp.responseBody
    .savetofile "c:\temp\someimage.png", 2 '//overwrite
end with

Answer 5

In addition to Alex K answer, I used the following if it helps someone :

Define object

Set objWinHttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")

Call Download link with a file ( image in our case )

URL = "https://www.grupya.com/public/assets/img/logo.png"
objWinHttp.open "GET", URL, False
objWinHttp.send ""

Save the Binary data to Disk

SaveBinaryData "c:\temp\my.png",objWinHttp.responseBody

SaveBinaryData Function

Function SaveBinaryData(FileName, Data)

' adTypeText for binary = 1
Const adTypeText = 1
Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2

' Create Stream object
Dim BinaryStream
Set BinaryStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")

' Specify stream type - we want To save Data/string data.
BinaryStream.Type = adTypeText

' Open the stream And write binary data To the object
BinaryStream.Open
BinaryStream.Write Data

' Save binary data To disk
BinaryStream.SaveToFile FileName, adSaveCreateOverWrite

End Function