How to download PDF files from a protected website

Serpemes Serpemes 51 1 1 silver badge 9 9 bronze badges. I know this. My question is how one is supposed to do this without Jaunt or Jsoup I disagree, there's already APIs out there that will do this for you. Don't reinvent the wheel.

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Open the view only pdf file in Google Drive in new window 2. Scroll to the bottom of the file so that every page will render 3. Open developer Tools on separate windows by pressing F12 and select Console Tab 4. Change the downloadPath accordingly to where you want your file to be saved. Feel free to use the absolute path too for your usage. There are times when you will end on a web page that looks like a folder and you can only find files being listed.

This is because the webserver directory index file index. One of the reason to offer directory listings is to provide a convenient way for the visitor to quickly browse the files in the folders and allow them to easily download the files to their computer.

Sometimes directory listings are accidental due to careless webmasters who forgot to include a. However, if you need to download multiple or even all of the files from the directory including the subfolders automatically, you will need third party tools to help you achieve that.

Here are 4 different methods that you can use download all files from a folder on a website. If you are a frequent downloader, you probably already have a download manager program installed. To download all of the files in a web directory with the Firefox download manager extensions, right click at an empty space on the page, and select DownThemAll! The download manager will then list all the files that it manages to find and lets you pick the ones that you want to download to your computer.

Wget is a command line tool which can be a bit difficult to use for some basic users. Download VisualWget, extract and run VisualWget. Click on the New icon to open a New Download window. Enter the URL that you want to download and select the location that you want to save the files to.

Finally click OK to start downloading. Apparently there are ways to lock down the download feature. I've attached the example I am currently struggling with for your information. I am sorry the right click menu is in German, but trust me when I say that there is no download option there either. Let me know if you have any other ideas. That doesn't look at all like that. And Chrome doesn't allow any other PDF viewer. From this we can conclude that this is not a PDF at all.

It's a web site designed to offer something in pages, and so it's easily mistaken for a PDF. It might have been a PDF back on its web site in China, but that isn't what is delivered to you.

Hence, this discussion does not apply. I have no idea if you can save it, because I don't know what facilities you have for saving something on a secure web site that isn't a PDF.

Thank you for clarifying! I still don't believe that "just hit the download button" is a good answer to the question "[how can I] download [a] PDF from a website that has no such option to download that PDF".

Obviously FyTg is not a "techie" user and getting into the intricacies of how that PDF file he is viewing is not being served to him a PDF is not gonna solve his problem. I never use Chrome, but I just opened it and checked settings. To set Chrome to download pdf files rather than opening them in the Chrome viewer, open Settings, click on Privacy and security, then Site Settings.

Find Permissions and click on Additional permissions at the bottom of that section. Scroll way down the page to Additional content settings where you'll find PDF documents as the fourth entry. That's cleverly hidden setting deep in the bowels of Chrome will solve your problem in that browser. Firefox makes this easier. Go to General settings and scroll a little more than halfway down the page to Applications.

Choose your desired outcome for that item in the right column. I'm not sure of the diffence between the left column choices, so I'd set them both. Edge seems to be the easiest of all. Click on Cookies and site permissions.