Question

I have win service which must download all zip files by URL(for example http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/) but when i use Directory.GetFiles method or DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GeoFullDataURLPath"]) i get error:

URI formats are not supported..

How i can resolve this problem?

Answer 1

The full source code for performing this task is:

string
    storeLocation = "C:\\dump",
    fileName = "",
    baseURL = "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/";

WebClient r = new WebClient();            
string content = r.DownloadString(baseURL);
foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(content, "<a href=\\\"[^\\.]+\\.zip\">"))
{
    fileName = Regex.Match(m.Value, "\\w+\\.zip").Value;
    r.DownloadFile(baseURL + fileName, Path.Combine(storeLocation, fileName));
}