asp.net 4.0
I have googled for nearly a week now about this thing but couldn't find any solution to my problem.. I want to download files to store them on my server. I know about using a webclient it does the job but only for direct links
webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.DownloadFile(fileUrl, filePath);
it doesn't work for files which don't have direct links! how can I download these type of files?
direct link: www.example.com/pic.jpg
indirect links: www.example.com/download?xxxxxxx
the specific website on which I faced this problem is www.zbigz.com
you can get an indirect link by copying this link torrent link on www.zbigz.com and it will cache the file in a minute and will provide you the link under "free" category..
I do have a link generated by this site but it won't work for you as this site don't support downloading of shared link. http://34044.zbigz.com/core/outfile.php?did=d85ade21e892f386e55a556ce47b654b
edit For all those who think this is for scraping! I want to download those file but can't do that directly as my university has blocked many websites including this so being a cse student i thought of this another way of downloading them to my server and then to my machine from server.
byte[] content;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(stream))
{
content = br.ReadBytes(500000);
br.Close();
}
response.Close();
FileStream fs = new FileStream(file_name, FileMode.Create);
BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs);
try
{
bw.Write(content);
}
finally
{
fs.Close();
bw.Close();
}
this is the code I am trying, works for direct link but gives 403 forbidden error on the above mentioned link.