Download File from URL There are a couple ways to do this. As mentioned, using the developer tools could work (more likely it will give you the url to the file) and right-clicking the link will work.

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From the title, it's a silly question.

But let's say I have a URL, and it's either a SWF, a PNG or an MP3 or something. How can I force my browser (in this case I'm using Google Chrome) to download the file, instead of automatically displaying/playing it?

My long & stupid and boring way around this is to create a one line HTM file with a hyperlink inside it pointing to the URL, then right click and save link as. But there has to be a better way to do this. I just can't find it by googling.

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There are a couple ways to do this. As mentioned, using the developer tools could work (more likely it will give you the url to the file) and right-clicking the link will work. Alternatively there are these options.

In Chrome

1. Goto the URL
2. Rick-click the webpage
3. Select Save As...

For verification purposes, here are png, jpg, and mp3 links. Follow them and try these steps. However, in my experience. If you already have a url to a file, opening up Chrome and following these steps is rather tedious so here is an alternative.

In Command Line

1. Open your favorite terminal emulator
2. type curl -o myfile.mp3 www.foo.com/bar.mp3
   • Where myfile.mp3 is what you want to call the file you're downloading
   • And www.foo.com/bar.mp3 is the URL to the file

[Note: This works for Linux and Mac users. If you are unfortunate enough to be a Windows user trying to use the cmd line, use Cmder and this method will work or if you're a purist try this]

For Powershell, this example works great:

This was confirmed with Win10 x64 1607.

You can see the files a page loads using Developer Tools. Under the 'Sources' tab in Developer Tools you can right-click a file and save it. For example, the webpage http://www.oizo3000.com/flash/projetmpc.swf loads the file 'projetmpc.swf'.

Obviously not useful for everyone, but if you have a Mac, put the URL into Safari and press Alt-Return.

This isn't quite what you were looking for but it might might make your life a little easier.

Create a new bookmark in your browser, set the name to 'Get Download Link' or what ever else you would like and set the target/location to

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Whenever you are viewing something you want to download just click that bookmark and it will replace the content with a link to the content. You should be able to click to download, otherwise you can always right click and save like normal.

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If the URL is on a webpage,

1. Install a clickable URL converter chrome-app.

2. Context-click (right-click) on the link and select 'Save Link As...' from the menu.

context-menu

3. Use the popup dialog to save the file.

popup dialog

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Let’s say a friend sent you a link to an app or an MP3 file, and you just want to download the thing. Normally, you’d copy the URL, open your browser, and paste the URL into the address bar. In some browsers, you'd even need to paste the URL into the address field, hit Enter, wait until the file loads, and then save it. There is an easier way:

Open Automator. From the list of templates, select Service. At the top right of the window, set the service to receive selected URLs in any application. Then, in the Internet group of actions, double-click on Download URLs. That will add it to the editing window on the right. By default, it will download URLs to your Downloads folder; if you wish them to go somewhere else, select that other location from the Where drop-down. Save the service and give it a name, such as Download Selected URL.

Now, in any app that supports services, find the URL of a downloadable file (or, for the purposes of testing, any URL at all) and select it with your cursor. Open the Services submenu from the application menu and select Download Selected URL from the list. (Or right-click on the selected URL and choose the service from the context menu’s Services section.)

The file connected to the selected URL should download to your selected folder. If it’s especially large, you’ll see a spinning cogwheel on the right side of the menubar while the service is running; clicking on that will open a menu where you can cancel the download if you wish. When the download is done, check the destination folder; your file should be there.

You can make this quicker by assigning a keyboard shortcut to your service: Open System Preferences and select the Keyboard preference pane. In the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select Services from the list to the left. Find Download Selected URL in the list on the right and double-click to its right. You can then enter a keyboard shortcut—Control-Command-D, perhaps—to assign it to your service.