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    <p>Hi Michael,</p>
    <p>It's been a long time since I used VBA, but this routine works
      when I run it in Excel ­— the zip file is downloaded to the local
      disc:</p>
    <p>strDownload = "0211656-200613084148143"<br>
      Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")<br>
      strURL_Request = <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/">"https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/"</a>
      & strDownload<br>
      http.Open "GET", strURL_Request, False<br>
      http.Send<br>
      Debug.Print (http.Status)<br>
      <br>
      ' (I have not bothered to parse the JSON output.)<br>
      strURL_ZIP =
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0211656-200613084148143.zip">"https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0211656-200613084148143.zip"</a><br>
      http.Open "GET", strURL_ZIP, False<br>
      http.Send<br>
      Debug.Print (http.Status)<br>
      <br>
      ' From
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59598416/vba-download-form-url-with-login-that-redirect-to-another-one">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59598416/vba-download-form-url-with-login-that-redirect-to-another-one</a><br>
      Set oStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")<br>
      oStream.Open<br>
      oStream.Type = 1<br>
      oStream.write http.ResponseBody<br>
      oStream.SaveToFile "C:\Users\…\Documents\download.zip", 2<br>
      oStream.Close<br>
      Debug.Print ("Completed")<br>
    </p>
    <p>Our servers don't block this query, so I think it's most likely
      to be a restriction on your own network / computer.  Note there is
      an HTTP redirect from the API server to the download server, but
      WinHttpRequest follows this automatically.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Kind regards,</p>
    <p>Matt<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/05/2021 16:18, Reetz, Michael
      (NLPV) wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying to query and download occurences
          with some subs written in VBA. While querying works fine,
          download leads to errors.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">At the end oft he query, I have a download
          link for a ZIP-archive. Putting this into a browser address
          field lets me download the archive. Giving it to a VBA-Object
          returns errors.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">E.g.,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Set http =
          CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">strURL_Request =
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/">"https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/"</a> &
          strDownload<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">http.setTimeouts 30000, 30000, 30000, 30000<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">http.Open "GET", strURL_Request, False<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">http.send<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">returns a jason file that contains the
          download link. I extract this link and use it as parameter in
          the next  step:<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">http.Open "GET", strURL_ZIP, False<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">http.send<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">This results in a timeout. Using
          "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" alternativly returns „Access denied“<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Is this a problem with our network
          restrictions or does the GBIF server block the query?<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Michael<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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