Hi all,
I have a link that looks like this - https:// ... (year)...(month).xslm.
The month part of the link changes every month. Is there any way SAS can click, download a file from this URL, and save it to our file system?
I can schedule a job, but I just can't figure out how to make SAS save this file to our file system. I tried PROC HTTP GET request but had no luck.
Thank you for your help!
filename _myfile "/home/fkhurshed/downloaded_data%sysfunc(today(), year4.)_%sysfunc(today(), monname3.).xlsm";
proc http method="get"
url="https://www.noaa.gov........%sysfunc(today(), year4.)_%sysfunc(today(), monname3.).xlsm"
out=_myfile
;
run;
filename _myfile clear;
First get this working for a single file with hardcoded dates, something like above.
Then use %SYSFUNC() with today() and the appropriate format for your date structure to have the date values calculated automatically.
If you want to get a binary copy of the "online" file, do it like this:
%let year=2023;
%let month=June;
filename in URL "https:// ... (&year.)...(&month.).xslm"
recfm=N lrecl=1; /* this important for binary copy */
filename out "/path/to/store/the/file/ filename (&year.)...(&month.).xslm" recfm=N lrecl=1;
data _null_;
rc = fcopy("in", "out");
rctxt = sysmsg();
if rc then
put "ERROR:" rctxt;
run;
filename in clear;
filename out clear;
I'm using this technique in my programs.
All the best
Bart
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