Downloading files from IPEDS (untested)

download_ipeds.do

// Create a program to download IPDS Completion data files
// The program will check if the file exists and if it does, it will download the file
// If the file does not exist, it will print a message to the user



capture program drop download_ipeds_completion
program define download_ipeds_completion
    version 17.0
    args year
    local output "zips"
    cap confirm dir "`output'"
    if _rc != 0 {
        display "Creating directory `output'"
        cap mkdir "`output'"
    }
    local filename "C`year'_A.zip"
    local ipedsurl "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data"
    capture confirm file "`output'/`filename'"
     
    if _rc == 0 {
        display "File exists - skipping download"
    }
    else { 
        display "File does not exist - downloading" 
        copy "`ipedsurl'/`filename'" "`output'/`filename'"
    } 
end

foreach year in  2006 2007 {
        download_ipeds_completion `year'
}