Download File w/o Safari

[Ray_Barber]

How would you download a file from a website onto your computer without having to go through Safari? I’m betting this uses a “do shell script” command, although I can’t be to sure. So given a file “http://www.website.com/gifpicture.gif” and a folder theFolder, how can you copy the file into the folder?

-RJ

[Ray_Barber]

try this:

–Click here to open this script in a new Script Editor window.

set thePictureURL to “http://www.website.com/gifpicture.gif”
set theFolder to the path to desktop –you pick the folder
set theFolderPath to POSIX path of theFolder –make the path unix friendly
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to “/”
set theFileName to the last text item of thePictureURL as text –get the file name
set GetTheFile to "cd " & theFolderPath & "; curl " & thePictureURL & " > " & theFileName
try
do shell script GetTheFile
on error
display dialog “could not retrieve image”
end try

[ben]

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[Ray_Barber]

That works perfectly, thank you very much Ben!

-RJ