EDIT - How can I download a file with batch file without using any external tools?
I think Bitsadmin does not work with relative paths and you need to add full name to the local file.
You can check also my bitsadmin script thats spends a lot of dirty work - it accepts two arguments url and the path to the local file (and a timeout number - default is 5).As you can see the it pre-pend %CD%
to the local file name:
@echo off
setlocal
:download
if "%2" equ "" (
call :help
exit /b 5
)
if "%1" equ "" (
call :help
exit /b 6
)
set url=%~1
set file=%~2
rem ----
if "%~3" NEQ "" (
set /A timeout=%~3
) else (
set timeout=5
)
bitsadmin /cancel download >nul
bitsadmin /create /download download >nul
call bitsadmin /addfile download "%url%" "%CD%\%file%" >nul
bitsadmin /resume download >nul
bitsadmin /setproxysettings download AUTODETECT >nul
set /a attempts=0
:repeat
set /a attempts +=1
if "%attempts%" EQU "10" (
echo TIMED OUT
endlocal
exit /b 1
)
bitsadmin /info download /verbose | find "STATE: ERROR" >nul 2>&1 && endlocal && bitsadmin /cancel download && echo SOME KIND OF ERROR && exit /b 2
bitsadmin /info download /verbose | find "STATE: SUSPENDED" >nul 2>&1 && endlocal && bitsadmin /cancel download &&echo FILE WAS NOT ADDED && exit /b 3
bitsadmin /info download /verbose | find "STATE: TRANSIENT_ERROR" >nul 2>&1 && endlocal && bitsadmin /cancel download &&echo TRANSIENT ERROR && exit /b 4
bitsadmin /info download /verbose | find "STATE: TRANSFERRED" >nul 2>&1 && goto :finishing
w32tm /stripchart /computer:localhost /period:1 /dataonly /samples:%timeout% >nul 2>&1
goto :repeat
:finishing
bitsadmin /complete download >nul
echo download finished
endlocal
goto :eof
:help
echo %~n0 url file [timeout]
echo.
echo url - the source for download
echo file - file name in local directory where the file will be stored
echo timeout - number in seconds between each check if download is complete (attempts are 10)
echo.
goto :eof
You can check also this jscript.net self compiled hybrid (save it as .bat):
@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /****** jscript comment ******
@echo off
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::: compile the script ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
setlocal
if exist simpledownloader.exe goto :skip_compilation
set "frm=%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\"
:: searching the latest installed .net framework
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%v in ('dir /b /s /a:d /o:-n "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v*"') do (
if exist "%%v\jsc.exe" (
rem :: the javascript.net compiler
set "jsc=%%~dpsnfxv\jsc.exe"
goto :break_loop
)
)
echo jsc.exe not found && exit /b 0
:break_loop
call %jsc% /nologo /out:"simpledownloader.exe" "%~dpsfnx0"
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::: end of compilation ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:skip_compilation
:: download the file
::
::::::::::
simpledownloader.exe "%~1" "%~2"
::::::::
::
exit /b 0
****** end of jscript comment ******/
import System;
var arguments:String[] = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
var webClient:System.Net.WebClient = new System.Net.WebClient();
print("Downloading " + arguments[1] + " to " + arguments[2]);
try {
webClient.DownloadFile(arguments[1], arguments[2]);
} catch (e) {
Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
Console.WriteLine("\n\nProblem with downloading " + arguments[1] + " to " + arguments[2] + "Check if the internet address is valid");
Console.ResetColor();
Environment.Exit(5);
}