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I'm trying to use this powershell command to download a web file, but the server has access control by user/pass credentials. What changes I must to do in my command to inform user and password and download a file correctly? I try to put 'user:pass@' after '//' but this didn't work. Jun 23, 2016  Facing problems while trying to download any file from a website? Use this simple trick to download a file from any URL using PowerShell in Windows 10.

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  • Mar 26, 2018  It will overwrite a file without warning so if you already have a file named image.jpg in a folder, make sure you don’t download and save another file with the same name. If you’re running PowerShell as a regular user, it will not let you save files to the root of your Windows drive. PowerShell will not correct file extensions.
  • It will overwrite a file without warning so if you already have a file named image.jpg in a folder, make sure you don’t download and save another file with the same name. If you’re running PowerShell as a regular user, it will not let you save files to the root of your Windows drive. PowerShell will not correct file extensions.

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I'm trying to get a script to query files on an IIS website, then download those files automatically. So far, I have this:


I'm not that good at PowerShell yet, and I get some errors, but I manage to get a couple test files I threw into my wwwroot folder (the web.config file seems undownloadable, so I'd imagine thats one of my errors). When I tried to change my $source value to a subfolder on my site that had some test text files(example = http://testsite:8005/subfolder/, I get errors and no downloads at all. Running my $testcode1 will give me the following links in my subfolder:
/subfolder/test2/txt
/
/subfolder/test1.txt
/subfolder/test2.txt
I don't know why it lists the test2 file twice. I figured my problem was that since it was returning the subfolder/file format, that I was getting errors because I was trying to download $source + $line, which would essentially be http://testsite:8005/subfolder/subfolder/test1.txt, but when I tried to remedy that by adding in a $root value that was the root directory of my site and do a foreach($line in $testcode1) { $webclient.downloadfile($root + $line, $destination + $line) }, I still get errors.
If some of you high speed gurus can help show me the error of my ways, I'd be grateful. I am looking to download all the files in each subfolder on my site, which I know would involve use of some recursive action, but again, I currently do not have the skill level myself to do that. Thank you in advance on helping me out!

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4 Answers

Best way to download files from a website is to use

Invoke-WebRequest –Uri $url

Once you are able to get hold of the html you can parse the content for the links.

$result = (((Invoke-WebRequest –Uri $url).Links | Where-Object {$_.href -like “http*”} ) | select href).href

Give it a try. Its simpler than $webclient = New-Object System.Net.webclient

A_NA_N

This is to augment A_N's answer with two examples.

Download this Stackoverflow question to C:/temp/question.htm.

Download a simple text document to C:/temp/rfc2616.txt.

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I would try this:

I think your only issue here is that you were grabbing a new file from a new directory, and putting it into a folder that didn't exist yet (I could be mistaken).

You can do some additional troubleshooting if that doesn't fix your problem:

Copy each line individually into your powershell window and run them up to the foreach loop. Then type out your variable holding all the gold:

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When you enter that into the console, it should spit out exactly what's in there. Then you can do additional troubleshooting like this:

And see if it looks the way it should all the way on down. You might have to adjust my code a bit.

-Dale Harris

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I made a simple powershell script to clone an openbsd package repo.... probably would work / could be implemented in other ways/use cases for similar things..

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