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Fetch HTML and save it to a file with Windows command line

I'm trying to save the html source of a fetched web page into a file and I want to do this using only the CMD prompt on Windows.

I could do this with wget, but that requires using the wget program.

Is there any easy way to do this?

Solution

  • You may use a Batch-JScript hybrid script to do that in a very easy way. The JScript support is installed with all Windows versions from XP on.

    @if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then

@echo off
CScript //nologo //E:JScript "%~F0" "%~1" > "%~N1.html"
goto :EOF

@end

var http = WScript.CreateObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0');
http.open("GET", WScript.Arguments.Item(0), false);
http.send();

if (http.status == 200) {
   WScript.StdOut.Write(http.responseText);
} else {
   WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("Error: Status "+http.status+" returned on download.");
}

    Save previous code in a .BAT file, for example: GetHtmlCode.bat, and execute it with the web address in the first parameter:

    GetHtmlCode.bat "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24975698/get-code-html-to-a-file-whit-cmd"

    I borrowed previous code from the accepted answer of this question and just did a couple small changes.