How to download and silent install .exe file with given URL using Python 3

Question

I have a URL which is a download link to a software.exe file. The intended operation is to use Python 3 to download the said file and then do a silent installation.

import ssl
from urllib.parse import urlparse
import requests

#convert to string
url = str(url) 

#convert ftp download path to http and remove chars to make it downloadable 
httpurl = re.sub("ftp://","https://",url)
print("url is: " + url)


#function to break file name from the full path
def split(downloadurl):
    p,downloadexename = os.path.split(downloadurl)
    return [downloadexename]

#Remove all the unnecessary stuff you don't need
downloadurl = httpurl.replace("'","").replace(',','').replace(":2100/FTP Folders/Software","").replace(" ","%20").strip("(").strip(")")
print("Download URL is: "+downloadurl)

down_name = os.path.basename(downloadurl)
down_dir = r"C:\Desktop"
                 
#Create folder if it doesn't exist for download as required 
if not os.path.exists(down_dir):
    os.makedirs(down_dir)
full_path = os.path.join(down_dir, down_name)

# Silent Install
subprocess.call([full_path, '/Silent'], shell=True)

Answer 1

It depends on what kind of installer the .exe is, but there is a high chance it already has the ability to install silently. For example, InnoSetup installers (a very common type) use the parameter /SILENT . If you don't know the installer type, you may try running the .exe with different variants of /s , /S , /SILENT etc. -- or some variants of /? , --help to show command line usage.