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Is there an easy way to download and save a .zip file from a URL to my computer through Mathematica? I am trying to develop an auto-update function for a mathematica package that is distributed via GitHub.

I tried Import[http://github.com/******.zip], but that only gave me the names of the files in the folder, but not the actual files or a way to save them. Any suggestions?

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  • Did you try URLSave? – C. E. Nov 29 '14 at 01:15
  • You can try Import[http://github.com/******.zip, "*"] and check the documentation. – Karsten7 Nov 29 '14 at 01:23
  • @Pickett URLSave gave me the error code: URLSave::invhttp: Failed writing received data to disk/application"

    @Karsten7. Import takes over 20 minutes to work, because I believe it is downloading, unzipping, and parsing the files, when I just need to save and unzip the file.

    Thank you both for ideas though.

     – Asas Nov 29 '14 at 09:43

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(I cannot post this as a comment, sorry.)

Your question seems to be a duplicate of this one: Downloading files without using Import.

I have just checked the solution from there, it downloads fine zip-files from GitHub. For extracting downloaded package, you can use ExtractArchive function.

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Found an easy solution: Use SystemOpen["https://github.com/****.zip"]. This will open the file in the system browser, and start the download!

(Decided to post the solution here in case others have the same question)

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