URL Download to File not working

[clarkj0388]

Hi all,

Can someone come up with another solution to download the PNG generated by this URL?

https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZ ... =200&w=652

Seems it's dynamically generated, so URLDownloadtoFile doesn't seem to be working.

The only solution I came up with would be to pop open the browser, let it render then send CTRL S... but I'd love to do it in the background.

Any thoughts???

[flyingDman]

It works fine here:

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url := "https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZnDfCpPlvTU8liZSxRK68iPgkpi9GbpD2FYCu5E0ZDk38075U0gI7qkeyXnksU1tgsFuLu3sa0b2uT_d87J6zH8Jque0tCB2Zz3m2g5ECC1R6oXlB65pD6zoerLOEc_wa_V-gCPfFgLBsF54iPUz0S6hDMh8FhON_qdm-l,9QY-qAGDoGYenT4VpxyK99_2EdBJhiV33wqM88e8G-rUb3PjERXM1G1kXsPSZajXT9rdIsiDrL2uCFU0gtEvyDmU7oBKMNYc26wVv4hrJiHC7AiLniIL0HW8Jnh7IuOGza0hrrefT6GLccqwz-XoIcOA6JAFn3FwYRo9AWFxDtOHliX1Zfb12utHjjhDcuRYTkd3DwvbVxZ0gCdDtjBHogrJ9QtpP-A9na3zlGEmQ75J7emq2G1x-qye7ejGizzQzu_xWWAPb9fwj7MYISmU4X7pJebod3gk1nZWrr4yC_pppb0tFsf36Qp-_-IaxgpoSnbbu1qgxSg?scale=1&h=200&w=652"

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[clarkj0388]

Yes it does. Thanks.

I wonder why passing it in as a var makes a difference over this:

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UrlDownloadToFile, "https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZnDfCpPlvTU8liZSxRK68iPgkpi9GbpD2FYCu5E0ZDk38075U0gI7qkeyXnksU1tgsFuLu3sa0b2uT_d87J6zH8Jque0tCB2Zz3m2g5ECC1R6oXlB65pD6zoerLOEc_wa_V-gCPfFgLBsF54iPUz0S6hDMh8FhON_qdm-l,9QY-qAGDoGYenT4VpxyK99_2EdBJhiV33wqM88e8G-rUb3PjERXM1G1kXsPSZajXT9rdIsiDrL2uCFU0gtEvyDmU7oBKMNYc26wVv4hrJiHC7AiLniIL0HW8Jnh7IuOGza0hrrefT6GLccqwz-XoIcOA6JAFn3FwYRo9AWFxDtOHliX1Zfb12utHjjhDcuRYTkd3DwvbVxZ0gCdDtjBHogrJ9QtpP-A9na3zlGEmQ75J7emq2G1x-qye7ejGizzQzu_xWWAPb9fwj7MYISmU4X7pJebod3gk1nZWrr4yC_pppb0tFsf36Qp-_-IaxgpoSnbbu1qgxSg?scale=1&h=200&w=652", LAX.png

[clarkj0388]

and yes... I've tried it without the quotes as well...

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UrlDownloadToFile, https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZnDfCpPlvTU8liZSxRK68iPgkpi9GbpD2FYCu5E0ZDk38075U0gI7qkeyXnksU1tgsFuLu3sa0b2uT_d87J6zH8Jque0tCB2Zz3m2g5ECC1R6oXlB65pD6zoerLOEc_wa_V-gCPfFgLBsF54iPUz0S6hDMh8FhON_qdm-l,9QY-qAGDoGYenT4VpxyK99_2EdBJhiV33wqM88e8G-rUb3PjERXM1G1kXsPSZajXT9rdIsiDrL2uCFU0gtEvyDmU7oBKMNYc26wVv4hrJiHC7AiLniIL0HW8Jnh7IuOGza0hrrefT6GLccqwz-XoIcOA6JAFn3FwYRo9AWFxDtOHliX1Zfb12utHjjhDcuRYTkd3DwvbVxZ0gCdDtjBHogrJ9QtpP-A9na3zlGEmQ75J7emq2G1x-qye7ejGizzQzu_xWWAPb9fwj7MYISmU4X7pJebod3gk1nZWrr4yC_pppb0tFsf36Qp-_-IaxgpoSnbbu1qgxSg?scale=1&h=200&w=652, LAX10.png

Stumped.

Thanks for helping me through it.

[boiler]

You have syntax issues in both cases. In the first case, you have a quoted string as if it were an expression, but that parameter doesn’t take expressions unless you force an expression:

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 UrlDownloadToFile, % "https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZnDfCpPlvTU8liZSxRK68iPgkpi9GbpD2FYCu5E0ZDk38075U0gI7qkeyXnksU1tgsFuLu3sa0b2uT_d87J6zH8Jque0tCB2Zz3m2g5ECC1R6oXlB65pD6zoerLOEc_wa_V-gCPfFgLBsF54iPUz0S6hDMh8FhON_qdm-l,9QY-qAGDoGYenT4VpxyK99_2EdBJhiV33wqM88e8G-rUb3PjERXM1G1kXsPSZajXT9rdIsiDrL2uCFU0gtEvyDmU7oBKMNYc26wVv4hrJiHC7AiLniIL0HW8Jnh7IuOGza0hrrefT6GLccqwz-XoIcOA6JAFn3FwYRo9AWFxDtOHliX1Zfb12utHjjhDcuRYTkd3DwvbVxZ0gCdDtjBHogrJ9QtpP-A9na3zlGEmQ75J7emq2G1x-qye7ejGizzQzu_xWWAPb9fwj7MYISmU4X7pJebod3gk1nZWrr4yC_pppb0tFsf36Qp-_-IaxgpoSnbbu1qgxSg?scale=1&h=200&w=652", LAX.png

In the second case where you don’t have quotes around it and would otherwise be correct legacy syntax, the string contains a comma, so it must be escaped or else it sees what follows it as belonging to the next parameter:

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UrlDownloadToFile, https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=9KZnDfCpPlvTU8liZSxRK68iPgkpi9GbpD2FYCu5E0ZDk38075U0gI7qkeyXnksU1tgsFuLu3sa0b2uT_d87J6zH8Jque0tCB2Zz3m2g5ECC1R6oXlB65pD6zoerLOEc_wa_V-gCPfFgLBsF54iPUz0S6hDMh8FhON_qdm-l`,9QY-qAGDoGYenT4VpxyK99_2EdBJhiV33wqM88e8G-rUb3PjERXM1G1kXsPSZajXT9rdIsiDrL2uCFU0gtEvyDmU7oBKMNYc26wVv4hrJiHC7AiLniIL0HW8Jnh7IuOGza0hrrefT6GLccqwz-XoIcOA6JAFn3FwYRo9AWFxDtOHliX1Zfb12utHjjhDcuRYTkd3DwvbVxZ0gCdDtjBHogrJ9QtpP-A9na3zlGEmQ75J7emq2G1x-qye7ejGizzQzu_xWWAPb9fwj7MYISmU4X7pJebod3gk1nZWrr4yC_pppb0tFsf36Qp-_-IaxgpoSnbbu1qgxSg?scale=1&h=200&w=652, LAX.png

If you switch to AHK v2, you can avoid all the expression vs. legacy syntax confusion because expressions are used throughout.