How would I download files from a server and extract them to a folder with a bat file?

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So my bat file needs to download zip files from a server and extract them to a specified folder.
How can I do this without popping up a browser window to download it? And I want to download the files into a different folder. So how can I do this?

Posted 19-Nov-13 10:42am

Braydon

Updated 19-Nov-13 11:41am

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G4mm4R4y 19-Nov-13 17:03pm

Im not sure there is any original batch commands to silently open a browser and downloading without you knowing it. As of unzipping it there is probably many ways, google it! - Jayden S

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 17:12pm

Certainly, there are no such "commands". With PHP, it is possible. Hard to understand OP's reasons...
—SA

G4mm4R4y 19-Nov-13 17:14pm

I dont do anything with batch anymore but cant the ftp do that? I just thought about this. -Jayden S

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 17:17pm

If this is HTTP, only HTTP request would do, if FTP, only FTP request, same thing with HTTPS, SFTP, FTPS, etc.
—SA

G4mm4R4y 19-Nov-13 17:23pm

What im saying is if he knows the ftp information could he download the file. FTP clients allow you to go both ways, does the dos ftp command do that also? -Jayden S

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 17:32pm

There is no such thing as "DOS FTP" (unless this is DOS, not Windows). FTP is nothing but yet another Windows application bundled with the OS installation...
With the same success, you could run any other application. FTP won't help is the file is accessed via HTTP...
—SA

G4mm4R4y 19-Nov-13 17:42pm

Sorry more of a typo i use dos a lot and get it confused with ms-dos. Nothing alike really. Ms-dos/batch has manny more commands. Another application or not it is still integrated into batch. I would think if this file is a zip file you could take, filezilla, for example and download/copy it from the web directory. It wouldnt be like using http to get to it but it would get the job done. -Jayden S

G4mm4R4y 19-Nov-13 17:57pm

The OP posted an answer that uses ftp so what im saying could work?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 18:36pm

if Wget is installed. This is the GNU program...
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 17:11pm

Why batch file? If you tagged PHP, maybe you would like to do it with PHP? :-)
—SA

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Braydon · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-19T11:52:00

Solution 1

I've got it

wget ftp://username:********@server.com/downloads/file.zip

Posted 19-Nov-13 11:52am

Braydon

Updated 19-Nov-13 12:05pm

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