Download Build Packages taking more time in Octopus Deploy

[sujeshsasi]

Hi Team,
We have developed a powershell script to download the Packages from the Octopus Server and use the package data internally. The issue we are facing now is running the script as part of a runbook in octopus deploy is taking more time. Infact if I run this script directly on Powershell ISE it takes approximately[2 to 3 minutes]. But from Octopus Deploy it takes [6 to 7 Minutes]. The more the data Octopus Deploy Takes more time to execute the same script. and there is no latency as both via octopus Deploy[Powershell] and using Powershell ISE we are running in the same server.

Powershell Command where we are downloading the package:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri “$OctoURL/api/$Spaces_Name/packages/packages-$packagename.$PackageVersion/raw?apikey=$API_Key” -OutFile “$ExtractTokenLocalPath\$GetName\$GetVersion\$Name\$package.$PackageVersion.zip”

Please let me know if there is any alternative method to download the packages faster. Please note we are trying to achieve this only via API and not via Octo.exe.

[Justin_Walsh]

Hi @sujeshsasi!

Thanks for reaching out. I’ve encountered issues like this before, with trying to download large files being slow when using Invoke-Webrequest - it seems it does not handle large downloads well. When working around this, I changed my download method to use

(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://URL", "OUTFILE")  

In my particular case, it trimmed the download down from 15+ minutes to <2 minutes. I’d suggest giving this a try to see if you have a marked improvement in your downloads.

[sujeshsasi]

Wow! that did work . And it is faster too. thanks a lot,