This second way is a bit trickier, but works very well, too. No need to get into what the XPath is here. You can learn more about XPath here or here. To get the XPath of the element, bring up the web page to show that element on the screen. In my case, I hover the mouse over a section that shows a thumbnail image with some text underneath it. Right-mouse-clicking on this section opens a browser menu. This will open a new section of your web browser, with many fascinating and wonderful tools. What we are looking at now is the HTML code that makes up the webpage you are on.
Depending on your settings, the inspection window may be on the side of your webpage, underneath it, or in a separate window altogether. The HTML code that makes up the section of the webpage that we did the right-mouse-click on will be highlighted. That part of the web page will highlight if you mouse over the HTML code. This opens another browser menu with many options.
That copies the XPath to our clipboard. Now you can adapt this macro other collections of pdf files on the same site, or to other websites altogether. Just change the first line, the URL of the website to start on, and the number of times to loop through the code, and any specific places to click. Like all computer programs, this macro will not run perfectly every time.
I found that sometimes it would download 30 or pages in a row just fine, but then suddenly stop. Sometimes it would download just 4 and then stop. If this happens, I found that two things can fix it.
Browsers normally use the user settings for downloaded files. EhsaanIsrar you can mark the answer as accepted though, can you not? I'm not sure what do you mean by 'automatically in xhtml'. The question was about javascript which should work just fine. You can add a script tag at the end of the body etc — minj. Show 3 more comments. It is also possible to open the pdf link in a new window and let the browser handle the rest: window.
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