Download a file with VBS
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
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
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