C# download files

DownloadFileTaskAsync new Uri " somesite. Show 2 more comments. Include this namespace using System. Abdul Saleem Abdul Saleem 8, 4 4 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges.

The question asks for the simplest way. Making more complicated isn't making it the simplest. Most people would prefer a progress bar while downloading. So i just wrote the simplest way to do that.

This might not be the answer but it meets the requirement of Stackoverflow. That is to help someone. This is just as simple as the other answer if you just leave out the progress bar. Also the question doesn't ask for the simplest way, just a simple way.

Jessedegans There is already an answer that shows how to simply download without a progressbar. Thats why I wrote an answer that helps with asynchronous download and progressbar implementation — Abdul Saleem. This answer is good, probably better and more detailed than the one with more upvotes. It's almost obvious that one needs a progress indicator while downloading a file. The asynchronous functionality is a bonus. I was looking for such an implementation. Show 1 more comment.

Chris Lee 6 6 bronze badges. WebClient is obsolete see github. Welcome to SO! Generally it's not a good idea to post a low-quality answer to an existing and old question that already has highly upvoted answers. I found my answer from seanb's comment, but truly I prefer this "low-quality" answer over the others. It's complete using statement , concise and easy to understand. Being an old question is irrelevant, IMHO.

But it think the answer with Using is much better, because, i think the WebClient should be disposed after used. Putting it inside using ensures that it is disposed. It has nothing to do with dispose in this code example The using statement here just show the namespace to use, no that WebClient is use into using to be dispose Complete class to download a file while printing status to console.

ComponentModel; using System. IO; using System. Net; using System. CreateDirectory Path. WriteLine "Downloading file:" ; client. WriteLine "Was not able to download file! Cancelled; if!

Write args. WriteLine Environment. Please could you explain why are you using SemaphoreSlim in this context? Surendra Shrestha Surendra Shrestha 9 9 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The file will be saved on the location where the executable file is. If you want full path then use full path along with file which is the filename of the item to be downloaded — Surendra Shrestha. Sample: webClient. I would suggest not using GetIsNetworkAvailable as, in my experience, returns too many false-positives.

In such a case you can use System. WebClient makes it really easy to download files, with its high-level API and it is available regardless of what. NET version you are targeting. Use HttpClient whenever you need more control and as the recommended option for new development. Yes, add me to your mailing list. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Home Blog About Contact. How to download files using C 0 May 20, The options When using C there are two main options that.

NET provides us with. WebClient Since the very first versions of the. Synchronous example First of all, make sure you have the appropriate using statement in place, as follows. Net; This is needed in order to use the WebClient class without requiring a fully qualified namespace. Asynchronous example What if we want to download a file asynchronously and report progress?

WriteLine "Download file completed. Additionally, two event handlers are wired up before the file download commences. Asynchronous wait example In order to download the file asynchronously using the DownloadFileAsync method and wait until the download has completed before continuing program execution, we need to dip into the world of reset events. The example below demonstrates how to accomplish this. Async await example Although the above example works, there is a cleaner way to achieve the same result, providing you are targeting.

The example below demonstrates this approach. HttpClient Since. HttpClient offers lots of different methods and is very powerful.

My images turned into question markes. What could couse this. Is this a google issue? The same issue BeckerJason had might be happening here, so possibly an HTML error page is being downloaded instead of the actual file.

You can call File. ReadAllText and log it to console to see its contents. This looks like its in Unity. In Unity I have seen that question mark when the file referenced doesn't exist. What yasirkula said seems correct. Most likely it is now downloading an HTML error. It was working well. But after a while, it stopped working. It gives nothing on DownloadFileCompleted event.

When I copy-pasted downloadAddress on the browser it downloads. Is it a Google issue? I have 27 images at KB size range on google drive.

My app made approximately calls on a short time. Is Google bans such requests Can you download the file in an incognito browser tab while you aren't logged in to your Google account? If so, can you check if the FileDownloader issue still persists?

Yes, I could download the file in an incognito browser tab while I am not logged in to my Google account. I changed my approach to download the files, I decreased request count. With this approach your script continues to work flawlessly. Thank you yasirkula. Nope -- GetResponse headers is empty -- thanks anyway -- I'll try something else -- probably web client code. I'm doing a large number of files downloads with files that average 10MB each.

I'm getting either 62 files downloaded or a max of just over MB, whichever comes first. So did the ridiculous, when I get the I use a await Task. Delay ConvertMinutesToMilliseconds 30 ;.

Yes -- this will take forever but I don't see a way out. Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Last active Aug 16, Code Revisions 4 Stars 44 Forks Embed What would you like to do? Embed Embed this gist in your website. Share Copy sharable link for this gist. Learn more about clone URLs. Download ZIP. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below.

To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters. This comment has been minimized. Sign in to view. Copy link Quote reply. Owner Author. WriteLine " Download completed " ; fileDownloader. Thank you. Gracias yasirkula! Thank You. Thank You once again.

I haven't tried multiple Drive downloads, so I can't make any promises. How can i download shared folder contents? Google Drive: redacted. I am using WPF aswell. Thanks if you can help! WriteLine "Download completed" ; Any idea what im doing wrong? You can simply rename sender to sender2. I've converted it to C for you, hope it works. Happy to hear that :.

WriteLine "Download completed" ; fileDownloader. Tank you for answer. TotalBytesToReceive Figure out how to make all work. Text ; if OnlineVersion. Nevertheless, you can insert the following code to line 84 to give the above solution a try: HttpWebRequest request. Any idea on what could cause this, and how to get around it? Any ideas? Thank you so much! GetGoogleDriveDownloadAddress category. GetTexture downloadAddress ; yield return www.

SendWebRequest ; if www. GetCategoryImagePath category. SaveAppImage path, www. GetCategoryImage category. BTW -- this code is fantastic. Descendants "meta". DefaultIfEmpty string.

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