Downloading files from a http server

[Gimerly]

Hey, I really need help in downloading files from a http server. It is easy enough but I don't know how to check the contents of the folder on the server against the contents the folder I want to download the files to, to make sure that I don't download the file more than once. If any one can post some sample code to help me with my problem it would be much appreciated

Edited April 18, 2014 by Melba23
Amended title

[FireFox]

Hi,

Welcome to the autoit forum

One simple way is to check if the file already exists on your computer :

; Assign a Local variable the registration path of the file to download
Local $sFile = @ScriptDir & "\myfile.txt"

; If the file does not exists locally
; You can also check if the sizes are equal using FileGetSize and InetGetSize.
If FileExists($sFile) = 0 Then
    ; Download it
    InetGet("http://example.com/myfile.txt", $sFile)
EndIf

Edit : Don't forget to read the helpfile

And please use a significant thread title next time, we already know you "Need help"

Br, FireFox.

Edited April 11, 2014 by FireFox

[Gimerly]

Thanks for the reply FireFox. I should have made myself more clear. What I need is to request a list of files from a http server so that I can compare that with my local drive files to determine whether or not I need to download the file. Currently what I am doing is downloading a file called update.txt which contains all the file names on the server. Every few minutes i re-download that text file and see if any changes have occurred and if any changes have occurred I download the newest files. All I want is to see if I can minimise the code using the former method but don't currently know if it is possible. 

[FireFox]

Post what you've done so far.

[somdcomputerguy]

These three functions will do that:

INetGet

_FileReadToArray

FileExists

 

There is example code in the Help file for each of these functions. You would also want to read and learn about loops, particularly For..Next and If..Then loops

[Gimerly]

i tried the _FileReadToArray but I found it only worked with local files and couldn't exact the info from the site I wanted

Edited April 17, 2014 by Gimerly

[water]

BTW:

Could you please give meaningful titles to your threads? Because everyone on this forum is looking for help

[Gimerly]

Yea sorry about that. This is the first time I have ever requested help on forums. I generally tend to look through the help files should I need a bit of information and as such I was not fully aware of how to properly structure A post 

[water]

No big deal

[somdcomputerguy]

i tried the _FileReadToArray but I found it only worked with local files and couldn't exact the info from the site I wanted

Use INetGet to get the file that's on the 'net.

Use _FileReadToArray to process each element of the local file that's the result of the first step. (this is where loops will be used..)

Use FileExists to process each element that _FileReadToArray returns.

 

There is example code in the Help file for each of these functions. You would also want to read and learn about loops, probably particularly For..Next and If..Then loops

BTW:

Could you please give meaningful titles to your threads? Because everyone on this forum is looking for help

It could help someone in the future with a similar problem who is searching thru the forum if the title more accurately describes the issue.

Good Luck!

Edited April 17, 2014 by somdcomputerguy

[Gimerly]

I do use the INetGet function to download, but all I wanted to know is if there is a way to fetch a list of files from the server without going through the long drawn out method I use (and most likely others). I have look through all the functions in the help files and nothing can do the thing I want. Thanks for the reply's I appreciate them despite my stupid naming of the title.