Add a couple of more variable bindings, make all the set visual gear values optional, to allow skipping trailing params or specifying ones in the middle as nil to not set. Should make using it more convenient in simple cases.
' w32DownloadUnzip.vbs
' Download a zipfile and uncompress it with no external tools in Windows
'
' Copyright (c) 2012, Vittorio Giovara, <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
' Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD license.
'
' References
' http://superuser.com/questions/59465/is-it-possible-to-download-using-the-windows-command-line
' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1021557/how-to-unzip-a-file-using-the-command-line
' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/424331/get-the-current-temporary-directory-path-in-vbscript
Set ArgObj = WScript.Arguments
If (Wscript.Arguments.Count = 1) Then
strFileURL = ArgObj(0)
strOutputPath = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetAbsolutePathName(".")
Else
If (Wscript.Arguments.Count = 2) Then
strFileURL = ArgObj(0)
strOutputPath = ArgObj(1)
Else
WScript.Echo ("Usage: csript.exe w32DownloadUnzip.vbs url output")
WScript.Quit
End if
End if
' Temporary directory
strHDLocation = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetSpecialFolder(2) + "\hwlibtemp.zip"
' Fetch the file
WScript.Echo ( "Trying to download from " & strFileURL)
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
objXMLHTTP.open "GET", strFileURL, false
objXMLHTTP.send()
If objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
Set objADOStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
objADOStream.Open
objADOStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary
objADOStream.Write objXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
objADOStream.Position = 0 'Set the stream position to the start
Set objFSO = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.Fileexists(strHDLocation) Then objFSO.DeleteFile strHDLocation
Set objFSO = Nothing
objADOStream.SaveToFile strHDLocation
objADOStream.Close
Set objADOStream = Nothing
Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
Else
WScript.Echo ("Error downloading file (error code: " & objXMLHTTP.Status & ")")
Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
WScript.Quit
End if
WScript.Echo ( "Extracting file to " & strOutputPath)
Set objShell = CreateObject( "Shell.Application" )
Set objSource = objShell.NameSpace(strHDLocation).Items()
Set objTarget = objShell.NameSpace(strOutputPath)
intOptions = 16 'no user prompt
objTarget.CopyHere objSource, intOptions
WScript.Echo ( "Success!" )
Set objShell = Nothing