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When all was said and done, I spend 20 minutes coding this and 5 minutes for it to make the request to 600 URLs and save the associated files instead of hours and hours copying and pasting and right clicking.
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While there are thousands of potential ways to utilize the MSXML packages, I found that to be a particularly helpful use of them. Java download file from URL with unknown filename (stackoverflow.
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If you are curious about the specific commands given in this section, Google can provide you with more details about the request, the parameters, and the outputs.īesides the cleanup code at the bottom of the script, there really is nothing else to this code. The second chunk of code is initiating a place to store the API response, and the last two lines take the API response and write it to the specified file. In the first 3 lines VBA makes the request to the URL specified for the file it is looking for. This bit of code defines the save location for the images (“Compendium Images” folder on my Desktop) as well as extracting the file name from the URL and setting that name as the value two columns to the right. oHTTP will become out XML API request object. In addition to the saving script, there will be a sweeper script needed, but coding a sweeper script for excel is something I’ve covered extensively before. This code works by selecting a cell with an img URL in it (and an image name two columns to the right) and looking up that image and saving it to my hard drive. OStream.savetofile sDestFolder & sImageFile, adSaveCreateOverWrite a) For the quickest and easiest way of doing this, you can download the msjava.dll file from the link below and copy it to the required directory.
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Placing the file into the right folder will let the VB6 install continue. Set oStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") The VB6 installer checks if the file msjava.dll exists in the SysWOW64 folder for 64-bit systems or System32 for 32-bit systems. Set oHTTP = CreateObject("msxml2.XMLHTTP") SImageFile = Right(ActiveCell.Value, Len(ActiveCell.Value) - InStrRev(ActiveCell.Value, "/"))ĪctiveCell.Offset(0, 2).Value = sImageFile SDestFolder = "C:\Users\adale\Desktop\Compendium Images\" The code (thanks to for most of it) for a single extraction is: I chose to program this in VBA (since the list I was given for URLs was in Excel) and using MSXML12 for VBA. Since extracting images from an img src isn’t the kind of thing you need a browser to render code for, so instead of coding IE I set up VBA code that would make requests for images directly through Microsoft’s XML API. I need to go through each record having url and enter it on the browser click on menu->hit download(zip file) and save it on my local folder. For example if you are downloading a CSV file then the SaveToFile method should be changed as follows. I have an excel file that has multiple records with urls.

Remember to change the file extension depending on the type of the file you download. But you can use this method to download other file types as well.

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Since I had promised to finish this whole project on Thursday afternoon and it was Friday at 9AM, I also needed this whole process to be fast. In the above example I showed how to download a.

We needed to download the entire list of images and get the file name of each image and associate it with the original post it was extracted from. While I was able to get a complete list of the URLs by using some scraping tools, clearly copying each URL and “save image as…” for 600 wasn’t very efficient. GET /download/confer/SPX_20130108_ HTTP/1.1Īccept-Language: es-ES,es q=0.8,en-US q=0.5,en q=0.Alden Dale Marketing Tips automation, Excel, image, images, scraping, VBA The problem: Needing to download hundreds of images instantlyĪt Balihoo we are changing providers for our blogging platform, and one of the challenges that came up was how to extract all the images (Over 600) we had uploaded to our existing software without having a built-in tool for pulling them off the server. Set-Cookie: RIS_Autorizado=si expires=Tue, 1 19:44:23 GMT path=/download/confer/ domain=. secure Proxy-Authorization: Basic am9uYXMudmVuZXJvOm5ocmd1M3g2cQ=

I used Firebug plugin in Firefox to get the headers and give me all the headers. This name is necesary for the person who download the file.
