Does windows have a wget command?

[Danielh90]

Hello I'm trying to make a batch file that when ever it runs it pulls down a file automatic. Does windows have a wget or somthing like it? 

[indrora]

If you use Powershell, you can use

( new-object System.Net.WebClient ).DownloadFile("http://some/url/somewhere", "c:\\some-place\\somewhere\\local\\")

otherwise, you'll be stuck grabbing wget for windows and calling that; Word to the wise, however: Windows builds of wget are often against really old versions of OpenSSL and are vulnerable to the various attacks that run through the news.

[Danielh90]

23 minutes ago, indrora said:

If you use Powershell, you can use

( new-object System.Net.WebClient ).DownloadFile("http://some/url/somewhere", "c:\\some-place\\somewhere\\local\\")

otherwise, you'll be stuck grabbing wget for windows and calling that; Word to the wise, however: Windows builds of wget are often against really old versions of OpenSSL and are vulnerable to the various attacks that run through the news.

Ok Thanks. +

[Danielh90]

19 minutes ago, Danielh90 said:

Ok Thanks. +

 

42 minutes ago, indrora said:

If you use Powershell, you can use

( new-object System.Net.WebClient ).DownloadFile("http://some/url/somewhere", "c:\\some-place\\somewhere\\local\\")

otherwise, you'll be stuck grabbing wget for windows and calling that; Word to the wise, however: Windows builds of wget are often against really old versions of OpenSSL and are vulnerable to the various attacks that run through the news.

Its giving me issues..  I removed my link because I would like to keep that private

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception occurred during a WebClient request."
At C:\Users\Daniel\Documents\GSB\run.ps1:1 char:49
+ ( new-object System.Net.WebClient ).DownloadFile <<<< ("Hidden", "c:\\servers\\minecraft")
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

 

[prolemur]

wget can also be downloaded for windows here http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

[r3bify]

You could also install cygwin, grab the wget package for that, and add cygwins binaries folder to your windows path so you can use it through cmd.

[Danielh90]

8 hours ago, r3bify said:

You could also install cygwin, grab the wget package for that, and add cygwins binaries folder to your windows path so you can use it through cmd.

Thank you

[Danielh90]

12 hours ago, prolemur said:

wget can also be downloaded for windows here http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

can I use this in a batch file? 

[prolemur]

1 hour ago, Danielh90 said:

can I use this in a batch file? 

Ya it'd be run just as any other cli executable

[Danielh90]

7 hours ago, prolemur said:

Ya it'd be run just as any other cli executable

Ok Thanks.