If you have the URLs in a text file, and open it with your browser with the DownThemAll extension installed [1] someone should be able to easily download them?

//Ed

[1] https://www.downthemall.org/

> On Dec 15, 2022, at 9:26 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> How can I use the Firefox, Chrome, and/or Safari Web browsers to batch download the content found at the other end of a list of URLs?
> 
> Suppose I have a list of URLs, for example:
> 
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/crl/crl-11730.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/ital/ital-5777.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/ital/ital-5582.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/ital/ital-4657.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/crl/crl-9927.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/crl/crl-11945.pdf
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/crl/crl-12423.pdf
> 
> Suppose also the list is saved as a file, or in my computer's clipboard.
> 
> Is there someway I can get the Web browser(s) to download all of the files? From the command-line I can do this work in many ways and with one hand tied behind my back, but most people do not / will not use the command line. Thus I need a way to use the GUI interface of a Web browser to do the work. Got any ideas?
> 
> Incidentally, all the URLs, above, point to articles written by Fred Kilgour (the founder of OCLC). A more complete list can be garnered with the following URL:
> 
>  https://distantreader.org/stacks/indexes/search?index=journals&query=author%3Akilgour&format=html
> 
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> Eric Lease Morgan
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