Download image from URL

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November 8, 2016
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Hi,

I need to download images from a webserver and have to display them on a catalog. This catalog should become a product catalog.

More info: The idea is that retailers can upload their product images on a webserver. An Indesign script should dynamically download these images and create a product catalog out of them. I'm currently stuck with coding the image download process. Is it possible in extendscript to download files given a URL?

Help is very appreciated.

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martine55225436Author

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Aren't there any easier solutions?

For example, I've found this solution: javascript - How to download an image from url to use in Photoshop scripting (ExtendScript Toolkit) - Stack Overflow

However, it doesn't work for me since app.system() seems not to be valid. Why?

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Laubender

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Thank you very much for your provided link!

In the meanwhile I tested Fabian's PhotoShop script snippet with several versions of PhotoShop.
As I can see app.system() is working with all my installed PhotoShop versions from CS4 to CC 2017 on OSX.

With PhotoShop CS3 app.system() seems to be not available.

Don't know how this will work on a Windows machine.
The command curl used by Fabian ( cURL, Client for URLs or Curl URL Request Library) should be also available on Windows.

See: https://curl.haxx.se

So downloading images from the web using ExtendScript with InDesign to the local file system should be doable by using BridgeTalk to access PhotoShop from InDesign.

Regards,
Uwe