HOW TO download a list of files with a PowerShell script

If you use Windows Vista or higher, PowerShell comes along with it. So if you have to download a list of files, you can do that easily with this PowerShell script instead of installing any other tools (command-line or GUI)

	# PowerShell script to download a list of files that have a predictable number pattern
	for ($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++)
	{
	$startTime = (Get-Date)
	# Download files that have the naming format File1.txt, File2.txt etc..
	(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://example/file$i.txt","C:\temp\file$i.txt")
	$endTime = (Get-Date)
	# Echo Time taken
	"Time taken to download file$i : $(($endTime-$startTime).totalseconds) seconds"
	}

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To get a single file, you can use just this line of code:
(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://www.xyz.net/file.txt', 'C:\tmp\file.tx‌​t')

You can also use the PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet:

	# PowerShell script to download a list of files that have a predictable number pattern 1.jpg, 2.jpg etc..
	$baseUri = "https://somesite.com/files/"
	for ($i = 1; $i -lt 9; $i++) {
	{
	$f = $baseUri + $i + ".jpg"
	$Downloadpath = "C:\temp\" + $i + ".jpg"
	Write-Output "Processing file: $f"
	Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $f -Outfile $Downloadpath
	}

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