Access Web Source Code and download files?

[ryodoan]

Hey everyone, I just got an idea for a program I would like to write, however, I am unsure on how to actually go about writing it.

A while ago I made a simple wallpaper randomizer for myself and a couple friends, when my computer starts up, it goes into a pre-selected directory on my computer and sets a random image as my background.

While browsing Digg today I saw one link was to a flicker group that has only wallpaper images in it, a total of over 11,000 wallpaper size images.

How would I go about accessing a webpages source code and then download a file?

Thanks for any help

 

[jmcilhinney]

My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile
WebClient.DownloadFile
WebClient.DownloadString
HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse classes

 

[Raven65]

Been a lot of interest in this topic recently. Two posts you might check out:

How to read the source code into a variable you could then parse for all IMG references: (Post 2 in thread.) http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?p=44655#post44655

How to then download one of those IMG links to your local disk: (Post 2 in thread.) http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?p=44680#post44680