• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Download file and put in special folder

  Posted by Jacob Danell on July 12, 2014 at 6:22 pm

  Hi! I’m working on a script that needs an external file to work. I don’t want to ship this file with the script because it’s relative big and some people already have this external file. What I wish to do is with a simple press of a button, download this file from the internet and automatically place it the same folder as the script.
  Is this possible somehow?

  Jacob Danell replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  July 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm

  The only reliable way I’ve seen to do something like that involves using cURL. It’s easier on a Mac because cURL support is build into the OS, so you can just use system.callSystem(cmdStr) to send the appropriate cURL command to the OS. It’s a lot trickier (but still possible) on Windows.

  Dan
• 

  Jacob Danell

  July 13, 2014 at 1:28 am

  I wished there were a way without any external software on both mac and win. On win I got a working way using wget but idk how it will be with the licensing, have to read some about it. But I might use cURL on Mac then at least.

  Thanks!

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up