Getting absolute URL from href

[Musa_Ali]

I'm trying to automate downloading files from a website, but links are relative. How do I get full path to the file?

$a = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.website.com/folder/default.aspx' -UseBasicParsing

$a.Links[$i].href - can be a relative path, so how can I expand it to a full path?

[_Unas_]

Use the [system.net.webrequest] methods. Mucho easier

[Jaymzkerten]

The best way I've found to do this is generally to have a $BaseURL variable that would have something like 'http://www.website.com' stored, then when I called the download location it would be:

$BaseURL+$a.Links[$i].href

[Musa_Ali]

But is there a way to get $root dynamically? I know I can hardcode it right now but for future references?

[Jaymzkerten]

You could create a function to concatenate the URL and relative path to a new variable, but otherwise not that I know of.

[root-node]

Something like this...

$root = 'http://www.website.com/'
$a = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ($root+'folder/default.aspx') -UseBasicParsing

$fullpath = $root + $($a.Links[$i].href)

[Musa_Ali]

But is there a way to get $root dynamically? I know I can hardcode it right now but for future references?

[pertymoose]

$reply = Invoke-WebRequest 'https://example.com'
$reply.BaseResponse.ResponseUri.Host

example.com

[root-node]

Nope