Download files script

If you want to stop the download job then use the Remove-BitTransfer cmdlet. You can stop a single job based on its JobId or all jobs with:.

When using Asynchronous it creates a temp file during the download process. But to actually use the file you will need to run the following cmdlet:. Instead, we can simply use the Copy-Item cmd to download a file from a server. If you want to know more about the Copy-Item cmdlet, then you should read this article where I explain more about the cmdlet and alternatives. The method to download zip files is pretty much the same as a normal file.

But I wanted to show you how that downloads and extracts the zip file. This way you can immediately process the files inside the zip file without manual interaction.

I am going to use this sample csv on GitHub which we can download in a zip file. We have to set a destination for the zip file itself and a path where we want to extract the files to.

The next step is to extract the zip file automatically in the desired location. For this we are going to use a COM object. With the COM object we can extract the zip file and copy the content to the desired location. When you need to scrape a website first then it can be a little bit more work to set up properly.

Try to use the Start-BitsTransfer cmdlet for downloading files and set the priority to normal when using it in an autonouse script.

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