Download Images from SharePoint Picture Library with PowerShell

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Introduction

In this post we will see a generic function to download images to local folder from SharePoint Picture Library (Image Library) through PowerShell script
The script include

Download images from SharePoint Picture Library. Folder structure is preserved as it is

Download Images

Following script will download images from Picture Library “MyTeamImagesLibrary” to local folder “C:\MySiteImages” of the server.
Users need to give values to three variables as below and execute the script file to download images

Remove-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue

######################## Variables ########################
$destination = "C:\MySiteImages"
$webUrl = "http://sharepoint-devsite.com"
$listUrl = "http://sharepoint-devsite.com/MyTeamImagesLibary"
##############################################################

$web = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webUrl
$list = $web.GetList($listUrl)

function DownLoadImages($folderUrl)
{
	$folder = $web.GetFolder($folderUrl)
	foreach ($file in $folder.Files)
	{
		#Ensure destination directory
		$destinationfolder = $destination + "/" + $folder.Url 
		if (!(Test-Path -path $destinationfolder))
		{
			$dest = New-Item $destinationfolder -type directory 
		}
		#Downloading file
		$binary = $file.OpenBinary()
		$stream = New-Object System.IO.FileStream($destinationfolder + "/" + $file.Name), Create
		$writer = New-Object System.IO.BinaryWriter($stream)
		$writer.write($binary)
		$writer.Close()
	}
}

try
{

	#Download root files
		DownLoadImages($list.RootFolder.Url)
	#Download files in folders
	foreach ($folder in $list.Folders) {
		DownLoadImages($folder.Url)
	}
}
catch
{
	write-host $_.exception

}
finally
{
 	    if($web -ne $null)
            {
                $web.Dispose()
            }
}