Download file at url

Raj Kumar Raj Kumar 6, 5 5 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. The best solution ever but I would like to add 1 important line 'client. Though I think that WebClient seems like a much more straightforward and simple solution. DownloadFileTaskAsync new Uri " somesite. Show 2 more comments. Include this namespace using System. Abdul Saleem Abdul Saleem 8, 4 4 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges.

The question asks for the simplest way. Making more complicated isn't making it the simplest. Most people would prefer a progress bar while downloading. So i just wrote the simplest way to do that. This might not be the answer but it meets the requirement of Stackoverflow. That is to help someone. This is just as simple as the other answer if you just leave out the progress bar. Also the question doesn't ask for the simplest way, just a simple way. Jessedegans There is already an answer that shows how to simply download without a progressbar.

Thats why I wrote an answer that helps with asynchronous download and progressbar implementation — Abdul Saleem. This answer is good, probably better and more detailed than the one with more upvotes. It's almost obvious that one needs a progress indicator while downloading a file. The asynchronous functionality is a bonus. I was looking for such an implementation. Show 1 more comment. Chris Lee 6 6 bronze badges. WebClient is obsolete see github. Welcome to SO! Generally it's not a good idea to post a low-quality answer to an existing and old question that already has highly upvoted answers.

I found my answer from seanb's comment, but truly I prefer this "low-quality" answer over the others. It's complete using statement , concise and easy to understand. Being an old question is irrelevant, IMHO. But it think the answer with Using is much better, because, i think the WebClient should be disposed after used.

Putting it inside using ensures that it is disposed. It has nothing to do with dispose in this code example The using statement here just show the namespace to use, no that WebClient is use into using to be dispose Complete class to download a file while printing status to console. ComponentModel; using System. IO; using System. Net; using System. CreateDirectory Path.

WriteLine "Downloading file:" ; client. WriteLine "Was not able to download file! Cancelled; if! Write args. WriteLine Environment. Please could you explain why are you using SemaphoreSlim in this context? Surendra Shrestha Surendra Shrestha 9 9 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The file will be saved on the location where the executable file is. If you want full path then use full path along with file which is the filename of the item to be downloaded — Surendra Shrestha.

Sample: webClient. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Giacomo Chud37 Chud37 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Can you provide the URL? Sure, I've got it now, but for testing try this: oizo You can't force your browser to download this.

The web link points to a file which contains a built in rendering system which displays the content within the page. If you own the website you can change code to do this, but from your end it would have to be a save as job. It's absolute rubbish that Chrome doesnt have this feature built in. I should just be able say right click in the url bar and click save as, but instead I have to go a stupid long winded way.

I'm still dertermined there's a solution out there. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. In Command Line Open your favorite terminal emulator type curl -o myfile.

Improve this answer. NonlinearFruit NonlinearFruit 8 8 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Curl is also available for Windows check their download page. I have it installed so I tested your command. It works like a charm! Works on. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. This error page is what will be saved in place of Filename.

Internet Explorer 3 or greater must be installed for this function to work. Firewalls or the presence of multiple network adapters may cause this function to fail. Also, some websites may block such downloads. Proxies : UrlDownloadToFile will use a proxy server to access the Internet if such a proxy has been configured in Microsoft Internet Explorer's settings. FTP and Gopher : [v1.