PrintUrlToFile function

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The PrintUrlToFile function is provided by the Script Support Class to StealthBot to expose the UrlDownloadToFile() API function to scripting.

Contents 1 Development 2 Documentation 2.1 Summary 2.2 Syntax 2.2.1 Arguments 2.3 Examples 3 See also

Development

The PrintUrlToFile function was added in version 2.6 as suggested by FiftyToo.

Documentation

'// PRINTURLTOFILE
'// Mirror function for the Windows API URLDownloadToFile() function
'// Currently you are restricted to placing files in the StealthBot install directory only
Public Sub PrintURLToFile(ByVal sFileName As String, ByVal sURL As String)

    sFileName = StringFormat("{0}\{1}", CurDir$(), sFileName)

    URLDownloadToFile 0, sURL, sFileName, 0, 0

End Sub

Summary

This function calls the API function URLDownloadToFile in order to download the file from the URL to the specified file name. Use this to download a file to the location specified by the BotPath function.

Syntax

PrintUrlToFile FileName, URL

Arguments

• sFileName is the name of the file to be downloaded to.
• sURL is the URL to remove cached entries for.

Examples

• Download some file to your bot folder wihtout caching.

sUrl = "http://stealthbot.net/sb/bnls.php"
DeleteUrlCache CStr(sUrl)
PrintUrlToFile "bnls_servers.txt", CStr(sUrl)

See also

• DeleteUrlCache function
• BotPath function
• Script Support Class