SBT task to download / fetch a file from a URL

Question

What is a recommended way to write an SBT task that downloads a file from a known URL into a local file?

Older versions of SBT provided IO.download which could be used to download a URL into a local file, but in recent versions (1.2.8) this method is not available and seem to be commented out in the code.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '19 at 18:08

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As documented here:

import scala.sys.process._

url("http://...") #> file("somefile") !

answered Mar 30 '19 at 18:08

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Now at https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/Process.html – Mike Feb 25 '22 at 23:10

SBT task to download / fetch a file from a URL

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