Take the tour ×  A quick question, but which I don't believe has
been asked here or at SO.  Does Mathematica have a simple way to
just download a file from the web? i.e. if I have a list of PDF
links (~ 2,000), can I use Mathematica to quickly take them and
save them to my system. The obvious way that I've used in the
past is to Import[] the data, but since we're talking large-ish
PDFs I wonder if there's a way to skip that step.  I have used
wget for this sort of thing in the past, but just seeing if
there's an easy way to do it within Mathematica. The 'Web
Operations' section of the documentation does not seem to have
any obvious reference to this. If not, I will obviously just use
the 'proper' tool.  share|improve this question add comment  3
Answers  up vote 22 down vote accepted  How about a version of:
path = FetchURL[ get_obj=ifp2_cut.mesh.gz&acces=ifp2_cut",
"ifp2_cut.mesh.gz"]; share|improve this answer This works great.
I've never used this Package, so will read up on it. – 
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