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Why not to use WGET.exe (command line utility), which can be run from VBSCRIPT?

Hey Gf,
Powershell works too.. or curl.. But I usually try to use objects that are built-in so that there are no additional downloads required.

WHAT THE HELL IS VBSCRIPT AND HOW DO I DOWNLOAD IT BECAUSE I CAN'T GET ITUNES WITH IT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lolz. wtf, bobbles.

VBScript comes with windows.. you save code to a .txt file, rename it to .vbs and double click. It will launch wscript.exe but srsly, it can damage your system if you run crap code. Your problem will unlikely be solved by figuring out what vbscript is, however. so yeah.

hi, just like bob here, we cannot get itunes or quick time to install into our computer to use the iPod...can you please help us out because we are very unsure of what to do,

coby

Greate litle script. Made the day for me!!

I am also having the exact same problems as bob and Coby, but I'm not sure I understand the answer you gave bob. So what do I do to be able to install iTunes? Every time I try, a window pops up saying I have to have VBScript in order to install iTunes. I tried downloading it, but is not working for me. This is VERY frustrating!

iTunes Users,
I'm sorry but I cannot help you. I don't use iTunes and I do not have a solution on how vbscript will help you install iTunes. Please go to Apple's forums or keep searching Google for an answers.

I could not get it to work with the path below, I think it is because I need to pass it a username and pwd. Other than that it is exactly what I am needing.

Any suggestions on how to pass it user & pwd?

Thanks!

http://www.greenecountymo.org/Recorder_FTP/12-26-2006c.zip

can someone please leave detail help on how to get a vb script download or or how to create a script. Like others having problems with itunes

any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!

Nice script! Thanks for sharing.

Cool script !!! I love it !
Thank you very much

Thank you very much. I am using this to automate the installation of our new A/V to VPN users. It is much quicker to have them download the application using an external web server than through the VPN concentrator. Thank you 1000 times over.

Thanks great script

Well, I tried using the script to download an image file from my test web server and save it to my hdd, but it keeps erroring out with "Safety settings on this computer prohibit saving data on another domain", although my test web server is on the local machine. I even turned the whole script into an HTA application, to no avail. I'm using IE7. Any suggestions?

To Mihai:
It has nothing to do with the location of the installed webserver. The safety settings of IE 7 disallow saving the File with the FileSystemObject (otherwise websites could access your local filesystem >.<). Just click with the right mousebutton on the message and click on allow.

WGET - damn linux trolls. Because stringing all the things you might want to do in addition to the download into a command line is just backwards.

Charles,
Huh?

Chrissy

You are awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thanks for the script Works great..

What if i want to grab an entire folder?

Thanks

Gbae

Is there any way to monitor the download progress??

Sweet ass script. Thanks.

Thats a great script. This is a shorter alternative:

dim ie
set ie.createobject("internetexplorer.application")
ie.visible=false
ie.navigateto("")
do while ie.busy=true
wscript.sleep 60
loop
ie.document.execwb("saveas",2,)
ie.quit

Very useful. Thank you.

Awesome script, this is just what i was needing

thanks a lot! was very useful for me ;D

sorry for ask... i'm really interested to know what plugin do you actually use to dynamically load posts with ajax when you get at page's bottom ('Loading the next set of posts')

sorry for my crappy english, feel free to mailme =P

Excellent script - just the job !, thanx for sharing.

Is it possible to load an http site, locate an href link and click it, acknowledge the dialog save as... box, and indicate the destination directory all through VBScript. It would be so much easier if an FTP site was provided, but it isn't, so I'm trying to take your script and make it do the additional steps, not even sure it's possible, ideas, hints, direction will be appreciated. -rm

This is sooooo cool! Thx

Very useful,

thank you

Works quite well!
And it´s able to download files from a SP site, for instance, and wget.exe can´t do that...

Thanks for providing this script, it really helped me a lot.

I have just tested your script and it worked well with small size of file but in case of large file say 500MB it throws following error:
ADODB.Stream: Out of memory

Please fix the code and let us know.

Thank you very much.

Thats is so POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE!
The text contains VIRUS! Holy moly once i saved as a text the avast pop up and says that it contain virus even that it just a TEXT VBS.

It's not a virus nor does it contain a virus. A lot of anti virus apps wrongly consider any vbs file a virus. Or maybe it hates FSO. But you can see clearly from the code that it's just downloading a file. If that's a virus, then I download hundreds of viruses a day.

Hi there,

Nice script - thanks!

I've refactored it a bit so that it can be called as a simple function which downloads directly to your temp dir. So now you can:

Call DownloadFile("http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/faust_20.png")

And it will download that file to your temp dir. Here is the function:

Function DownloadFile(DownloadUrl) 'generic file downloader, saves to temp
'Get name of file from url (whatever follows the final forwardslash "/")
Dim arURL, FileName, FileSaveLocation
arURL = Split(DownloadUrl,"/",-1,1)
If arURL(UBound(arURL)) = "" Then 'if there is a trailing forwardslash
FileName = arURL(UBound(arURL) -1)
Else
filename = arURL(UBound(arURL))
End If
'Get temp folder location
Dim oFS, TempDir
Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set TempDir = oFS.getSpecialFolder(2)
Wscript.Echo TempDir & "\" & FileName
FileSaveLocation = TempDir & "\" & FileName

' Fetch the file
Dim oXMLHTTP, oADOStream
Set oXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
oXMLHTTP.open "GET", DownloadUrl, false
oXMLHTTP.send()
If oXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
Set oADOStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
oADOStream.Open
oADOStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary
oADOStream.Write oXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
oADOStream.Position = 0 'Set the stream position to the start
If oFS.Fileexists(FileSaveLocation) Then oFS.DeleteFile FileSaveLocation
Set oFS = Nothing
oADOStream.SaveToFile FileSaveLocation
oADOStream.Close
Set oADOStream = Nothing
End if
Set oXMLHTTP = Nothing
End Function

Something's up with WP. When I try to post a link to a better-formatted version of the script above, I get redirected to a blank page. Sorry if I just dumped like 20 bogus posts into your approval queue (if you have one).