download zip file with XP and Internet Explorer

[Automation4Life]

I have a script that downloads a ZIP file from here:
http://www.sws.uiuc.edu/warm/cdflist.asp?y=2008

I navigate to that address, click ALL STATIONS, and the File Download dialog appears.

Everything worked fine (or I changed something without realizing it) until the last Windows XP update. Now if I navigate to that link, it opens the ZIP file as a folder on my machine in C:\Documents and Settings\...\Temporary Internet Files\...

If I right click the ALL STATIONS link, I can manually choose "Save Target As", but I'm uncertain how to automate that.

Any ideas on how to force the file download dialog?

Thank you

Edit: It still works fine on my Vista machine.

[Me_again]

Why not do it the easy way? That ALL STATIONS link is to

http://www.sws.uiuc.edu/warm/data/cdfs/ ... ions08.zip

and you can use HTTPRequest> to grab it directly without having to open IE.

(My guess is that the 2009 file will be "09".)

[Automation4Life]

That's a nice workaround and it's simpler than what I started with. I appreciate the help.

[Me_again]

You're welcome. I use this software for weather related stuff too

[ferque6]

How can I use HTTPRequest> for downloading JPG files from internet and saving them with the same name? There is a lot of such files.

[Marcus Tettmar]

In order to request the file you must already know it's name, so your script logic would use that same name for the local file.

[ferque6]

For example, I want to download the following link to a pic:

http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/10/06 ... r-ss03.jpg

and save to a folder named c:\pics\Jennifer_Lawrence

What is the sentence using HTTPRequest?

Thanks

[JRL]

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Let>FileName= c:\pics\Jennifer_Lawrence\J_L_0001.jpg
HTTPRequest>http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/10/06/5432e75e74ed87dd423a3848_jennifer-lawrence-vanity-fair-11-november-cover-ss03.jpg,FileName,Get,,,

[ferque6]

I want the downloaded file to have the same name without put this name twice. What must I do?

Another question, do the macro pause until downloading is complete?

[JRL]

Ok... This works on this particular web page but will likely need to be amended for other web pages. I first downloaded the http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/10/06 web page and examined the source to see how to parse out the jpg data. Then wrote the code to do that. If you want other web pages you'd need to do the same for each page. Also, be forewarned that web pages are generally changed on a regular basis so your code might work one time then fail the next time you try use it.

And yes the macro pauses at each line including the HttpRequest> line.

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HTTPRequest>http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/10/06,,Get,,vHttp_Data,,
Separate>vHttp_Data,"name":",vLine
Message>

Let>kk=0
Repeat>kk
  Add>kk,1
  Let>Value=vLine_%kk%
  Separate>Value,.jpg"%comma%",vImage
  SetControlText>Macro Scheduler Message,TMemo,1,%kk% of %vLine_Count%%crlf%%vImage_1%.jpg
  Let>FileName=c:\pics\Jennifer_Lawrence\%vImage_1%.jpg
  HTTPRequest>http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/10/06/%vImage_1%.jpg,FileName,Get,,,
Until>kk=vLine_Count

[ferque6]

Imagine there are many pics and some of them are "jpg", other ones are "gif", other ones are "png".

What can it be done?

Thanks