Downloading file from url c#

Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Is there a way to download an image directly from a url in c if the url does not have an image format at the end of the link? Example of URL:. These methods are almost same as DownloadString.. You can use Image. FromStream to load any kind of usual bitmaps jpg, png, bmp, gif, Note : ArgumentException may be thrown by Image.

FromStream if the downloaded content is not a known image type. Check this reference on MSDN to find all format available. Here are reference to WebClient and Bitmap. We don't recommend that you use the WebClient class for new development. Instead, use the System. HttpClient class. The first part of getting the file extension is to remove all the unnecessary parts from the URL. We can use Uri. GetLeftPart with UriPartial. Path to get everything from the Scheme up to the Path.

After that, we can use Path. GetExtension to get only the extension in my previous example,. From here it should be straight forward. Download the image with HttpClient. GetByteArrayAsync , create the path, ensure the directory exists and then write the bytes to the path with File. Most of the posts that I found will timeout after a second iteration. Particularly if you are looping through a bunch if images as I have been.

So to improve the suggestions above here is the entire method:. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. MapPath string. Bluebaron Bluebaron 1, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. I ended up using this, note HostingEnvironment. GetAsync uri ; be in using statements? It says they inherit IDisposable. See here — Mitchell Wright. Doesn't the C 8. Add a comment. Here is my approach. ToString ; client. Clear ; client. Add new System. GetAsync uriBuilder.

ToString ; if response. Ingale88s Ingale88s 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Use the httpClient has a static instance instead, lots of articles online covering this problem. The static instance can also cause problems as it is never refreshed.

IsNullOrEmpty Settings. SendAsync request. Create, FileAccess. Write, FileShare. Options, requestMessage. RequestUri, requestMessage. Version, requestMessage. Headers, responseMessage. IsSuccessStatusCode, responseMessage. ReasonPhrase, requestMessageInfo, responseMessage. StatusCode, responseMessage. TrailingHeaders, responseMessage. FullMessage , ex2.

FullMessage , WebExceptionStatus. ResponseHeadersRead, cancellationToken ; if! ReadAsync buffer, cancellationToken! WriteAsync buffer. SendAsync httpRequestMessage, cancellationToken ; if! Replace ", see inner exception. Lambda notation and String interpolation has been used: using System. ToBase64String Encoding. WriteLine "Download finished! Kreshnik Kreshnik 2, 5 5 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges.

Some comments about the purpose of your code statements would be helpful, for those who are unfamiliar with asynchronous operations and cross-thread calls.

Add "keep-alive" ; client. This response could be from HttpAgilityPack, or WebClient, or Puppeteer lots of options Manually entries from config values or hard coded values. Cryptc Cryptc 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. GetAwaiter ; Console. WriteLine "File was downloaded" ; Console.

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Active 9 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 3k times. I am attempting to download a file from a web server e. James Teare James Teare 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Thank you, thats just the simple logic i needed! Thanks : — James Teare. Good luck and mark it answered ; — Sandeep Singh Rawat. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.