How to download a file from a website?

[Luke 18]

Hello fellow botters,

 

Today I've got a question. I'm stumped on something that seems simple so hopefully i'm just overlooking something...

 

There is a website that gives me keyword lists. For each file, without a Bot I would:

 

1. Click a "Download here" link to download the Zip file. (abc123.csv.zip)

2. Open in it 7zip, (Windows file associate does that for me automatically)

3. Then open the resulting csv file with yet another program...

 

 

Desperate to automate some part of this sluggish process, I'd at least like to get all of these Zipped files all down to my local machine... But when a bot clicks that download link, the very next thing I see is the inside of the 7zip program, and it doesn't have an URL blank nor a save button at that point.

 

('Add,' 'Extract,' and 'Test' are the options, and those are buttons in a 3rd party app, not selectable.)

 

So is there any way at all to avoid the associated zip program issue, and get a csv.zip file down or better yet get its' contents into a variable?

 

Thanks,

Luke

[IRobot 43]

Hi Luke,

 

But when a bot clicks that download link, the very next thing I see is the inside of the 7zip program, and it doesn't have an URL blank nor a save button at that point.

Instead of clicking the link, have you tried using the Action command > download file?

[Luke 18]

Instead of clicking the link, have you tried using the Action command > download file?

 

Now when did they add THAT to ubot?

 

I just KNEW it was something simple I was overlooking, thank you for pointing that out.

 

Cheers,

Luke