# Download image from an URL

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** perspective, scripting\
**Created:** [September 20, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385 "2023-09-20T12:23:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![THauptman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@THauptman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/THauptman)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385/1 "2023-09-20T12:23:17Z")

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Hello everyone.

We would like to download an image - snapshot from an ip camera using URL and store file on the gateway as .jpg

URL path to this camera image is like this:  
[http://admin:password@192.xxx.xxx.xxx](http://admin:password@192.xxx.xxx.xxx):port/images/snapshot.jpg

This task(script) would be executed on the gateway event. What syntax should we use to achive this?

Thank you for your help

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385/2 "2023-09-20T13:41:08Z")

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Start with system.net.httpClient performing a GET request.

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**Author:** ![THauptman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@THauptman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/THauptman)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385/3 "2023-09-21T05:39:09Z")

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Thank you for pointing us in the right direction. We made it work.

Here is the code if anyone should need to do the same

```auto
url = 'http://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port/images/snapshot.jpg'
response = system.net.httpClient().get(url, timeout=20000)
image = response.getBody()
system.file.writeFile("C:/Folder/file.jpg", image)

```

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-image-from-an-url/79385/4 "2023-09-21T06:01:51Z")

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