If you find yourself needing to download a file from a website on a daily basis, you can use Microsoft Flow to automate the process. Here’s how:
1. Go to flow.microsoft.com and sign in with your Microsoft account.
2. Click on the ‘Create a flow from blank’ template.
3. Give your flow a name, then select the ‘Trigger’ step.
4. Choose the ‘When a HTTP request is received’ trigger.
5. Paste in the URL of the website from which you need to download the file.
6. In the ‘Response Body JSON Schema’ field, paste the following:
{
“type”: “object”,
“properties”: {
“url”: {
“type”: “string”
}
}
}
7. Click on the ‘New Step’ button, then select the ‘Action’ step.
8. Search for and select the ‘HTTP’ action.
9. In the ‘URI’ field, paste the URL of the file you need to download.
10. Under ‘Method’, select ‘GET’.
11. Click on the ‘New Step’ button, then select the ‘Action’ step.
12. Search for and select the ‘Create File’ action.
13. In the ‘File Name’ field, enter the name of the file you want to create.
14. In the ‘File Content’ field, select ‘File Content’ from the dynamic content list.
15. Click on the ‘Create Flow’ button.
Your flow is now created and ready to run. To test it, simply send a HTTP request to the URL you specified in Step 5. The file you specified in Step 14 should be downloaded to the location you specified in Step 13.
Other related questions:
Can I use Power Automate to download file from website?
Yes, you can use Power Automate to download files from websites.
How do I download a file using flow?
There is no specific “download” action in Flow, but you can use the “Get file content” action to retrieve the contents of a file stored in SharePoint. You can then use the “Create file” action to create a new file with the contents retrieved from SharePoint.
How do I automatically download a file from a website using python?
You can use the urllib2 module to download files from websites:
import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen(‘http://www.example.com/file.zip’)
file = open(‘file.zip’, ‘wb’)
file.write(response.read())
file.close()
Or you can use the requests module:
import requests
r = requests.get(‘http://www.example.com/file.zip’)
with open(‘file.zip’, ‘wb’) as f:
f.write(r.content)
How do I make SharePoint download automatically?
There is no way to make SharePoint automatically download files.