How to download artifacts from teamcity 8.1.2 using c # code
Using C # code, I would like to download artifacts (zip file) from teamcity.
Based on TC documentation ( https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD8/Accessing+Server+by+HTTP and) I wrote this code
string artifactSource = @"http://testuser:testpassword@teamcity.mydomain/httpAuth/downloadArtifacts.html?buildTypeId=ExampleBuildType&buildId=lastSuccessful";
using(WebClient teamcity = new WebClient())
{
teamcity.DownloadFile(artifactSource, @"D:\Downloads\1.zip");
}
In Visual Studio I got: An unhandled exception of type "System.Net.WebException" occurred in System.dll Additional information: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
When I type url in the browser, I get the correct response (file ready to download). What am I doing wrong? Should I do authorization differently?
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The following code gets you what you described:
var artifactSource = @"http://teamcity.mydomain/httpAuth/downloadArtifacts.html?buildTypeId=ExampleBuildType&buildId=lastSuccessful";
using (var teamcityRequest = new WebClient { Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password") })
{
teamcityRequest.DownloadFile(artifactSource, @"D:\Downloads\1.zip");
}
As you can see, I took the username and password and passed them to the Credentials property of the WebClient.
I would also recommend checking Guest Authentication if you have a Guest account on TeamCity enabled (which I do at my company). This allows you not to use any credentials at all. In this case, you need to change "httpAuth" in url to "guestAuth" and the code becomes
var artifactSource = @"http://teamcity.mydomain/guestAuth/downloadArtifacts.html?buildTypeId=ExampleBuildType&buildId=lastSuccessful";
using (var teamcityRequest = new WebClient())
{
teamcityRequest.DownloadFile(artifactSource, @"D:\Downloads\1.zip");
}
Hope this helps.
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