Saving a web graphics file

Could someone point in the right direction here. I'd like to do a script that
asks me several questions (or lets me fill in some input data controls) and
then retrieves a graphics file from a web site and writes that file to disk.

The input data shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but I'm not sure what I'm
looking for to get a file from a web site and then write it to disk.

Is PowerShell a good way to do this? Sounds pretty straight forward but I
haven't seen any examples of doing this.

Thanks,
Mark

I'm quite surprised that you haven't find eny examples, because I came
across a lot. Can't remeber any link right now but basically you do this:

$wc = new-object net.webclient
$wc.DownloadFile("http://msdn2.microsoft.com/msdn/Controls/IntegratedBannerCtrl/en-us/msdn.jpg",
"c:\msdn.jpg");

I.e. you use standard .net class named WebClient
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...nt(vs.80).aspx
to retreive the data you need.

//Andrew

Mark Masters wrote:
> Could someone point in the right direction here. I'd like to do a script that
> asks me several questions (or lets me fill in some input data controls) and
> then retrieves a graphics file from a web site and writes that file to disk.
>
> The input data shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but I'm not sure what I'm
> looking for to get a file from a web site and then write it to disk.
>
> Is PowerShell a good way to do this? Sounds pretty straight forward but I
> haven't seen any examples of doing this.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:32:04 +1200, Andrew Savinykh <andrewsav@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'm quite surprised that you haven't find eny examples, because I came
>across a lot. Can't remeber any link right now but basically you do this:
>
>$wc = new-object net.webclient
>$wc.DownloadFile("http://msdn2.microsoft.com/msdn/Controls/IntegratedBannerCtrl/en-us/msdn.jpg",
>"c:\msdn.jpg");
>
>I.e. you use standard .net class named WebClient
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...nt(vs.80).aspx
>to retreive the data you need.
>
>//Andrew
>
>Mark Masters wrote:
>> Could someone point in the right direction here. I'd like to do a script that
>> asks me several questions (or lets me fill in some input data controls) and
>> then retrieves a graphics file from a web site and writes that file to disk.
>>
>> The input data shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but I'm not sure what I'm
>> looking for to get a file from a web site and then write it to disk.
>>
>> Is PowerShell a good way to do this? Sounds pretty straight forward but I
>> haven't seen any examples of doing this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>

Thanks!

In message <e4HATBfaHHA.2448@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Andrew Savinykh
<andrewsav@gmail.com> writes
>I.e. you use standard .net class named WebClient
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ent(vs.80).asp
>x
>to retreive the data you need.

Thanks for the pointer.

As it turns out, this page has some new community content (i.e. the
sample converted into powershell).

:-)
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