How to download files from command line in Windows, like Wget

Create a file named 'Download_File.vbs' with following contents:

DownloadUrl = "http://ovh.net/files/10Mb.dat"
FileLocation = "Download.dat"

Wscript.Echo "Start Downloading"
Set ObjXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")
ObjXMLHTTP.open "GET", DownloadUrl, false, "username", "password"
'http.setTimeouts 5000, 5000, 10000, 10000 'ms - resolve, connect, send, receive'
'http.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic MY_AUTH_STRING"
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(FileLocation) Then ObjFSO.DeleteFile FileLocation
 Set ObjFSO = Nothing

 ObjADOStream.SaveToFile FileLocation
 ObjADOStream.Close
 Set ObjADOStream = Nothing
 Wscript.Echo "Download Completed: " + FileLocation
Else
 Wscript.Echo "File Not Found"
End if

Set ObjXMLHTTP = Nothing

And create another file in the same folder named 'Download_Command.bat' with following contents & double click to download file from defined url:

@ECHO OFF
cscript.exe Download_File.vbs
pause
exit;           

Using php download a temporary file

<?php
$dataArray = array(
    "name" => "Pritom K Mondal",
    "company" => "Some Company"
);
$tmpName = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'data');

$tmpFile = fopen($tmpName, 'w');
fputcsv($tmpFile, $dataArray);

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.csv');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($tmpName));

ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($tmpName);
unlink($tmpName);
?>

Downloading a Remote File With cURL and PHP

cURL is a great tool to help you connect to remote web sites, making it easy to post forms, retrieve web pages, or even to download files. In this PhpRiot Snippet I'll show you how you can download a file straight to disk using cURL.

Note: To simplify our key points in this article we don't perform any error checking on the cURL requests. You should always do so; the curl_getinfo function is extremely useful for this.

If you use basic options when executing a cURL request, the returned data will be output directly. If instead you want to assign the response to a PHP variable you would specify the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option.

You can then read the response and write it to disk, as shown in the following listing. The $path variable is the location on the server where you want to write the file.

Listing 1 Downloading a file and saving it with file_put_contents() (listing-1.php)

<?php 

    set_time_limit(0); 

    $url  = 'http://www.example.com/a-large-file.zip';
    $path = '/path/to/a-large-file.zip';
 
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
 
    curl_close($ch);
 
    file_put_contents($path, $data);
?>

There is however a problem with this code. If the file you're downloading is quite large, the entire contents must be read into memory before being written to disk. Doing so can result in your script breaking down due to exceeding the memory limit.

Note: Even if your memory limit is set extremely high, you would be putting unnecessary strain on your server by reading in a large file straight to memory.

Therefore, you should let cURL do the hard work by passing to it a writable file stream. You can do this using the CURLOPT_FILE option.

Note: Because we'll be writing to a file you no longer specify the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option.

To do this you must first create a new file pointer using fopen(). Next we pass this file pointer to cURL and perform the request. Finally, we close the file pointer.

Listing 2 Using cURL to download straight to a file stream (listing-2.php)

<?php     

    set_time_limit(0); 
    $url  = 'http://www.example.com/a-large-file.zip';
    $path = '/path/to/a-large-file.zip';
 
    $fp = fopen($path, 'w');
 
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
 
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
 
    curl_close($ch);
    fclose($fp);
?>

That's all there is to it. You can now download files without worrying about exceeding PHP's memory limit.

http://www.phpriot.com/articles/download-with-curl-and-php 

How to download and save a file from url using Java

Give a try to Java NIO:

try {
    URL url = new URL("http://portal.com/img/logo-header.gif");
    ReadableByteChannel rbc = Channels.newChannel(url.openStream());
    FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream("C:\\src\\a.gif");
    fileOutputStream.getChannel().transferFrom(rbc, 0, 1 << 24);
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

Using transferFrom() is potentially much more efficient than a simple loop that reads from the source channel and writes to this channel. Many operating systems can transfer bytes directly from the source channel into the filesystem cache without actually copying them.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html