Download File from URL
There are a couple ways to do this. As mentioned, using the developer tools could work (more likely it will give you the url to the file) and right-clicking the link will work. Alternatively there are these options.
In Chrome
- Go to the URL
- Right-click the webpage
- Select Save As...
For verification purposes, here are png, jpg, and mp3 links. Follow them and try these steps. However, in my experience. If you already have a url to a file, opening up Chrome and following these steps is rather tedious so here is an alternative.
In Command Line
- Open your favorite terminal emulator
- type
curl -O URL
- Where
Ois written in capital - And
URLis the URL to the file, e.g.http://example.com/file.mp3
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Download File from URL
There are a couple ways to do this. As mentioned, using the developer tools could work (more likely it will give you the url to the file) and right-clicking the link will work. Alternatively there are these options.
In Chrome
- Go to the URL
- Right-click the webpage
- Select Save As...
For verification purposes, here are png, jpg, and mp3 links. Follow them and try these steps. However, in my experience. If you already have a url to a file, opening up Chrome and following these steps is rather tedious so here is an alternative.
In Command Line
- Open your favorite terminal emulator
- type
curl -O URL
- Where
Ois written in capital - And
URLis the URL to the file, e.g.http://example.com/file.mp3
For Powershell, this example works great:
invoke-webrequest -uri http://files.animatedsuperheroes.com/themes/spiderman94.mp3 -outfile "c:\Spiderman94.mp3"
This was confirmed with Win10 x64 1607.
If you also want to give a suggested name to the file (instead of the default 'download') you can use the following in Chrome, Firefox and some IE versions:
function downloadURI(uri, name) {
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = name;
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
delete link;
}
And the following example shows it's use:
downloadURI("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
function download(dataurl, filename) {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = dataurl;
link.download = filename;
link.click();
}
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");or:
function download(url, filename) {
fetch(url)
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(blob => {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.download = filename;
link.click();
})
.catch(console.error);
}
download("https://get.geojs.io/v1/ip/geo.json","geoip.json")
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");This is probably a super simple question to answer, but I've yet to find an answer to it by searching. How can I provide a link to have a file download? For example, if I had a document on my webpage, and someone wanted a copy of it, they would click on the link and it would download. How difficult is that to implement? Thanks!
So, I have a website with a list of 427 links, and each of them makes you download a **~**50mb file. I have to download all theese files and I am getting CRAZY. Here there are all methods I tried. Please help me.
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The first thing I tried was to copy every link, paste it in a site that opened them all and waiting for Chrome to download the files. Obviously it wasn't that easy, because, after downloading a few files (something like 10), Chrome stopped all the others downloads that were waiting, saying "network error". It wasn't a network error but Chrome that is lazy and stops the downloads in the waitlist after 5min. (P.S. I have 1TB of free storage on my hdd).
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So I tried to switch browser: I downloaded Firefox and I visited the advenced settings in about:config. To increase the number of simultaneus downloads I changed the setting "network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server" from 6 to 20. Then I opened 20 links and the downloads started, but firefox downloaded only 10 files before stopping and giving the same Chrome error.
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I understood that the browsers were dumb, so I tried an alternative way: it seemed that "Microsoft Power Automate" could download files from the web without a browser. So I gave it the command "download from web", but (other promblem), I could give him only a single link.
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To solve this porblem I tried some ways to merge some links into one, I found a website that was suppposed to do that, I created a new link and, when I opened it, "ERROR 300: multiple choises"
And now I am here, asking you for help. I have also tried a lot of other methods but, but, for being briefer, I have not listed them here (also because I don't rememmber them). So, I beg you, tell me how I download them, i am desperate. There is something I can do with Power Automate, with Chrome, with Firefox or with something else existing in this world? How can I do it? I thank you from the bottom of my heart
Btw the website is this: https://cdn.nohesi.gg/cars/. (yes, assetto corsa mods)
P.s. Sorry for any error, but English is not my native language.
When you've started the transfer in Firefox, cancel it, and right click the download and hit "Copy download link". If you're using an older version, right click it and click on "Properties", and the link will be in the window which opens.
In Chrome - run download as normal - then go to Menu - Downloads - and you should see the direct link which was used. Or press Ctrl + J to open the window.
You can use the LiveHTTPHeaders extension to determine the actual URL of the file being downloaded. (Keep an eye on the GETs in particular.)