Help Needed in Batch Script

[born2achieve]

Hi,

I have 1000 image url in my text file(sample.txt) and i want to download the images using the url. Can anyone please share with me the sample script which can do this in single shot.

Also, is there any way to reduce the size of the image into 20/20 px with png extension.

Thanks

 

[edy1en]

hmmm im not very good with batch... but you can do this with wget.
your txt content is

www.pic.com/pic01.jpg
www.pic.com/pic02.jpg

right?

then get wget and use this command
wget -i sample.txt

and for resizing, get irfanview and use batch resize function.

 

[SIW2]

You can use wget -p to specify destination.

View attachment WGET.zip

This batch file will download them into a folder called DESTINATION

e.g.

@echo off
SET TP=%~dp0
SET TP=%TP:~0,-1%
cd /d "%TP%"
mode con lines=40 cols=100
color 5f
  for /F "delims=" %%A in (MYURLS.txt) do (
       wget -P DESTINATION/ %%A
  )
 PAUSE

 

[Pyprohly]

Hi Born2achieve,

As you might now know--the command prompt, or batch files for that matter, cannot download web files without the need of a third party application.

If you're okay with downloading and using Wget, SIW2's batch script works... beautify.

Else if not, here is a PowerShell script you may use that will get the job done.

DownloadImagesFromTxtList.ps1

# Duplicate items in the destination directory will be overwritten.

# Edit below values
$url_list = "C:\Path\to\myurls.txt"
$local_output_dir = "C:\Some\destination\folder"
#

$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

if ( (Test-Path $local_output_dir) -eq $false ) {
    'Error: The destination folder does not exist.'
    exit 1
}

try {
    $fh = [IO.File]::OpenText( $url_list )
}
catch [System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException] {
    'Error: The file "' + $url_list + '" could not be found.'
    exit 1
}

try {
    for (;;) {
        $line = $fh.ReadLine()
        ## Read-Host > $null # A pause statement
        if ( $line -eq $null ) { break }
        
        if (!( $line -match "^https?://.*$" )) { $line = 'https://' + $line }
        $line = [URI]$line
        
        'Downloading "' + $line.OriginalString + '"...'
        $WebClient.DownloadFile( $line.OriginalString, (Join-Path -Path $local_output_dir -ChildPath $line.Segments[-1]) )
        'Saved "' + $line.OriginalString + '" to "' + (Join-Path -Path $local_output_dir -ChildPath $line.Segments[-1]) + '"'
        
        ''
    }
}
finally {
    $fh.Close()
}
'Done.'

However, a few things must be configured prior to executing PowerShell scripts. A tutorial for running PowerShell scripts does not yet exist on this forum's tutorial index, so you're going to have to figure that one out.

Also, there is a thing you should know, Born2achieve, about both the Batch and PowerShell script solutions: if a web file specified in the text file of URLs happens to not exist, the file will be downloaded anyway. So the result will not always end up being a proper functioning image.

 

[born2achieve]

Thank you Pyprohly for the great tip. I will try with the PowerShell and let you know. honestly i ever used PowerShell in my experience. It's new to me. but i wanted to give a try. Will postback to you once i am done.

Thanks for your time and thanks everyone who tried to help me on on this post.