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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 > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship > Hesburgh Libraries > University of Notre Dame > > 574/631-8604 > https://cds.library.nd.edu