Download Or Save Image File From URL Using Net C#

This tutorial will show how to download a file (image,video,zip,pdf,doc,xls,ect) from a valid URL of a particular website then save it as a physical file on server disk. It provides one more solution when you want to copy/move a file from a server to another server.
using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Net;

using System.IO;

 

public partial class download_file_from_url : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        //Demo URL is included below please replace with the actual path

        string url = "http://testUrl.com/wp-includes/images/logo.jpg";

        string file_name = Server.MapPath(".") + "\\logo.jpg";

        save_file_from_url(file_name, url); 

        Response.Write("The file has been saved at: " + file_name);

    }

 

    public void save_file_from_url(string file_name, string url)

    {

        byte[] content;

        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

        Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream(); 

        using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(stream))

        {

            content = br.ReadBytes(500000);

            br.Close();

        }

        response.Close();

 

        FileStream fs = new FileStream(file_name, FileMode.Create);

        BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs);

        try

        {

            bw.Write(content);

        }

        finally

        {

            fs.Close();

            bw.Close();

        }

    }

}