How to download files with Powershell

10 Replies to “How to download files with Powershell”

1. Anony says:

   October 25, 2013 at 1:25 am

   It didn’t run for me.

   Here is what I got:

   \PS C:\Users\emiller> $Url = “https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/ps.txt”
   $Path = “C:\temp\ps.txt”
   $Username = “”
   $Password = “”

   $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
   $WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.Networkcredential($Username, $Password)
   $WebClient.DownloadFile( $url, $path )
   Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required
   .”
   At line:8 char:24
   + $WebClient.DownloadFile <<<< ( $url, $path )
   + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

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2. Suresh says:

   October 1, 2014 at 7:50 pm

   Hai,

   I am getting below error, Can you please help me?

   $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
   $WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.Networkcredential($Username, $Password)
   $WebClient.DownloadFile( “$url”, “$path” )
   Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “An exception occurred during a WebClient request.”
   At line:9 char:1
   + $WebClient.DownloadFile( “$url”, “$path” )
   + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

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3. Jack says:

   December 16, 2014 at 10:10 pm

   You’re getting errors because you initialized the variables as $Url and $Path but then below you wrote $url and $path (notice the missing capitol letters)
   should work once you fix that.

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   • Thomas Maurer says:

     December 17, 2014 at 11:19 am

     Thanks for your anwser I will check that

     Reply
4. kaustubh says:

   March 31, 2015 at 12:41 am

   Command is working fine with windows server 2012 (powershell 4.0) is not working with windows 8 (powershell 4.0) for same.

   I want to download file from iis-server.

   (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘http://server12/vdir/v.exe’,’C:\pqr.exe’)
   I tried this. It worked fine for me in server 2012, but in windows 8 it gave me method invocation error

   Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “An exception occurred during a WebClient request.

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5. Hector says:

   February 18, 2016 at 8:37 pm

   Script worked great.

   Thanks Thomas

   Reply
6. Dadaso Pawar says:

   January 18, 2017 at 12:50 pm

   New-Object : Cannot find type [System.Net.WebClient]: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded.
   At /home/dadaso/Desktop/fileupload.ps1:13 char:14
   + $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
   + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo : InvalidType: (:) [New-Object], PSArgumentException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

   The property ‘Credentials’ cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists and can be set.
   At /home/dadaso/Desktop/fileupload.ps1:14 char:1
   + $webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($use …
   + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFound

   You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
   At /home/dadaso/Desktop/fileupload.ps1:15 char:1
   + $WebClient.DownloadFile( $url, $path )
   + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

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7. Mark says:

   December 4, 2017 at 4:00 am

   This like many other examples will work fine but what about multiple files where
   a) you do not have to name these files
   b) point to a url and pull from there?

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8. meg says:

   March 20, 2018 at 4:41 pm

   How do I use the Windows Logon Credentials or Single Sign on of gmail ?
   Please help

   Thanks in advance
   Currently, I am prompting for the credentials. But we want to use the Single-Signon or the Windows Logon credentials
   Below is my code:
   #define the URL and credentials#
   $Url = “MY_URL”
   $Path_URL = “MY_PATH”
   $Username = Read-Host “Enter Your Email Address for Cylance Login:”
   $Password = Read-Host “Enter your Password:” -AsSecureString -ConvertTo-SecureString
   Write-Host “`n `n Succesfully Logged in `n `n”
   #Download#

   $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
   $WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.Networkcredential($Username, $Password)
   $WebClient.DownloadFile( $url, $Path_URL )

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9. preetham says:

   January 16, 2020 at 7:28 am

   Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “An exception occurred during a WebClient request.”
   At line:7 char:5
   + $WebClient.DownloadFile($Url, $Path)
   + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
   Getting this error
   using windows 10 and windows poweshell ISE

   Reply

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