Is it possible to download using the Windows command line?

"You can write a VBScript and run it from the command line

Create a file downloadfile.vbs and insert the following lines of code:

' Set your settings
strFileURL = ""http://www.it1.net/images/it1_logo2.jpg""
strHDLocation = ""c:\logo.jpg""

' Fetch the file
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject(""MSXML2.XMLHTTP"")

objXMLHTTP.open ""GET"", strFileURL, false
objXMLHTTP.send()

If objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
Set objADOStream = CreateObject(""ADODB.Stream"")
objADOStream.Open
objADOStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary

objADOStream.Write objXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
objADOStream.Position = 0 'Set the stream position to the start

Set objFSO = CreateObject(""Scripting.FileSystemObject"")
If objFSO.Fileexists(strHDLocation) Then objFSO.DeleteFile strHDLocation
Set objFSO = Nothing

objADOStream.SaveToFile strHDLocation
objADOStream.Close
Set objADOStream = Nothing
End if

Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing

Run it from the command line as follows:

cscript.exe downloadfile.vbs"

"Windows 7 includes PowerShell and there's pretty much nothing you can't do with PowerShell.

Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?"

"Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) can download files via HTTP. Just enter the URL into the Address bar. Or from the command line, for example, C:\windows\explorer.exe http://somewhere.com/filename.ext.

You get the classic File Download prompt. Unless the file is a type that Windows Explorer knows how to display inline, (.html, .jpg, .gif), in which case you would then need to right-click to save it.

I just tested this on my VMware image of a virgin install of Windows XP 2002 SP1, and it works fine."

"You can use (in a standard Windows bat):

powershell -command ""& { iwr http://www.it1.net/it1_logo2.jpg -OutFile logo.jpg }""

It seems to require PowerShell v4...

(Thanks to that comment and this one)"

"Use FTP.

From the command line:

ftp ftp.somesite.com
user
password

etc. FTP is included in every Windows version I can remember; probably not in 3.1, maybe not in Windows 95, but certainly everything after that.

@RM: It is going to be rough if you don't want to download any other tools. There exists a command line Wget for Windows and Wget is designed to do exactly what you're asking for."