Vbscript: Download files from a list of urls.

Posted: Friday 26 April 2013

The following script can read through a list of urls [seperated by a return], and download them, for example, pretend that the following is a .txt file:

http://www.extramaster.net/LinesAndLinesOfCode.jpg
http://www.extramaster.net/GooglePlusBrand.jpg
It is then ran through the script, and "LinesAndLinesOfCode.jpg", "GooglePlusBrand.jpg" will be downloaded into the directory in which the script and the .txt file is placed in
The code is as follows:

Usage

To use it create a file with a file extension of  .vbs and paste the contents of the code below into the file you just created, or downloaded and extracted from the gist.
Then, put that file into any folder you want, create a new text file if you don't have the list of links yet, run the script and follow the prompts