Automatically download and save pdf files from a website.
Is there a way to do this?
I would like to automate a daily procedure for downloading and saving a
couple of dozen pdf from several websites. Currently I have saved bookmarks
in a browser and manually open and save each one.
Some of the files have direct addresses, for example: https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...rice_sheet.pdf
Some are dynamically generated, for example: https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...te=MA&type=wsl
(this returns a pdf file to the browser)
I can get the directly addressed documents with some simple scripting of an
FTP client. It's the dynamically generated files that I'm having a hard time
figuring out. The only way I've been able to get the dymamically generated
files seems to be to request the url through a browser.
(Windows XP pro, ie 6.0, Acrobat Reader 7.0.0, VB.NET 2003)
Dim ieApp As SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer = New SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer
Dim sURL as String = "URL of file I want"
ieApp.Navigate( sURL)
This seems to work fine. Launches a browser, navigates to the URL, browser
invokes Acrobat, pdf document is displayed.
The two problems I don't know how to solve are:
1) Determining when the pdf document has finished downloading.
2) Saving it.
Thanks.
Mike 3  21236 
"MJ" <no**@nomail.co m> schrieb: Automatically download and save pdf files from a website.
'WebClient.Down loadFile'.
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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Mike,
Here is some of my C# code that I use. Should be very easy to translate
into VB.NET. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
try
{
webClient.Crede ntials = CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials;
webClient.Downl oadFile(url, fileName);
}
catch (System.Excepti on e)
{
// Do something with exception
}
finally
{
webClient.Dispo se();
}
Jason Newell
MJ wrote: Automatically download and save pdf files from a website.
Is there a way to do this?
I would like to automate a daily procedure for downloading and saving a
couple of dozen pdf from several websites. Currently I have saved bookmarks
in a browser and manually open and save each one.
Some of the files have direct addresses, for example:
https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...rice_sheet.pdf
Some are dynamically generated, for example:
https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...te=MA&type=wsl
(this returns a pdf file to the browser)
I can get the directly addressed documents with some simple scripting of an
FTP client. It's the dynamically generated files that I'm having a hard time
figuring out. The only way I've been able to get the dymamically generated
files seems to be to request the url through a browser.
(Windows XP pro, ie 6.0, Acrobat Reader 7.0.0, VB.NET 2003)
Dim ieApp As SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer = New SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer
Dim sURL as String = "URL of file I want"
ieApp.Navigate( sURL)
This seems to work fine. Launches a browser, navigates to the URL, browser
invokes Acrobat, pdf document is displayed.
The two problems I don't know how to solve are:
1) Determining when the pdf document has finished downloading.
2) Saving it.
Thanks.
Mike
Thanks a million Jason & Herfried. That's exactly what I was looking for. I
had no idea it was there (is my newbieness showing?).
Thanks again,
Mike
"Jason Newell" <no****@nospam. com> wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP14.phx.gbl.. . Mike,
Here is some of my C# code that I use. Should be very easy to translate
into VB.NET. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
try
{
webClient.Crede ntials = CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials;
webClient.Downl oadFile(url, fileName);
}
catch (System.Excepti on e)
{
// Do something with exception
}
finally
{
webClient.Dispo se();
}
Jason Newell
MJ wrote: Automatically download and save pdf files from a website.
Is there a way to do this?
I would like to automate a daily procedure for downloading and saving a
couple of dozen pdf from several websites. Currently I have saved
bookmarks
in a browser and manually open and save each one.
Some of the files have direct addresses, for example:
https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...rice_sheet.pdf
Some are dynamically generated, for example:
https://www.somewebsite.com/resource...te=MA&type=wsl
(this returns a pdf file to the browser)
I can get the directly addressed documents with some simple scripting of
an FTP client. It's the dynamically generated files that I'm having a
hard time figuring out. The only way I've been able to get the
dymamically generated files seems to be to request the url through a
browser.
(Windows XP pro, ie 6.0, Acrobat Reader 7.0.0, VB.NET 2003)
Dim ieApp As SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer = New SHDocVw.Interne tExplorer
Dim sURL as String = "URL of file I want"
ieApp.Navigate( sURL)
This seems to work fine. Launches a browser, navigates to the URL,
browser invokes Acrobat, pdf document is displayed.
The two problems I don't know how to solve are:
1) Determining when the pdf document has finished downloading.
2) Saving it.
Thanks.
Mike
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