Questions tagged [download]
Downloading is the process of receiving digital data from another computer, either over a local-area-network or a wide-area-network (i.e. the internet).
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How can I download an entire website?
How can I download all pages from a website?
Any platform is fine.
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Where can I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?
I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After ...
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How to download a website from the archive.org Wayback Machine?
I want to get all the files for a given website at archive.org. Reasons might include:
the original author did not archived his own website and it is now offline, I want to make a public cache from ...
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How to download video with blob url?
I am trying to download video with src url blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/23aea5c8-9ae2-40dc-9417-e675ea99b386.
Is there a process that can be followed to download all this type of videos?
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Download all mail messages from Gmail including Sent folder items
How can I download all the messages from a Gmail account, including the Sent folder items, when a normal POP fetch will only grab the inbox items?
My wife recently died, and she gave me access to her ...
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Google Chrome Auto-Close Download Bar
Having to hit the X to close out that bar over and over is such a pain. When a download completes, I want to have the bar clear itself and leave the bottom of the screen, similar to the way Download ...
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Why do some downloading files not know their own size? [duplicate]
Occasionally, when downloading a file in a web browser, the download progress doesn't "know" the total size of the file, or how far along in the download it is -- it just shows the speed at which it's ...
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Downloading software without bloatware
From time to time, I find myself needing a piece of software to perform a specific task. Download.com (CNET) used to be a good site. But now, I find that they bundle a lot of "evilware", i.e. ...
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Save a single web page (with background images) with Wget
I want to use Wget to save single web pages (not recursively, not whole sites) for reference. Much like Firefox's "Web Page, complete".
My first problem is: I can't get Wget to save background images ...
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Does streaming use the same amount of bandwidth as downloading?
Assuming the content is of the same quality (ceteris paribus), does streaming media (i.e. video, audio) use the same amount of bandwidth as downloading it?
Say I was to download an HD movie from ...
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How to find out the real download URL on download sites that use redirects
Let's say I want to download something with wget but the website that has the files I need redirects to a site which automatically chooses a mirror for me (and there's no static file URL provided).
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Where can I find the VMware vSphere client?
VMware's download site is very frustrating. I am unable to find where the download link to the vSphere client is.
Did they rename this tool? How can I get it?
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Getting chrome to open "text" files in a tab
When I look at code samples on the web that are linked to as a .c, .cpp, .h etc file, chrome will download it for me as a file.
Is there a way to get it to open the file (which is really just a text ...
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Does saving a web page using Ctrl+S in Firefox make the browser load the site a second time?
When saving a website for offline reading with Ctrl+S in Firefox, I notice that the download process takes some seconds to finish although the web page is already loaded.
I'm wondering whether saving ...
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How do I recursively download a directory using smbclient?
When I try to fetch a directory with get "Path To\Directory\", I get the following error:
NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY opening remote file Path To\Directory
How do I recursively download this ...
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How do you download files on a Windows server?
Related question: Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?
The question might sound stupid, but this is often a major issue for me. Consider the following scenario:
The customer has a fresh ...
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Make Chrome always open PDFs itself
I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some ...
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Where can I download Windows 8 legally, from Microsoft?
I obtained a licence key for Windows 8 through DreamSpark. Is there a way to download a Windows 8 ISO image like you could for Windows 7? I am on a non-Windows machine, so I cannot use the Secure ...
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How can I download an old version of Google Chrome
For testing purposes, I need to download an old version of Google Chrome. I need the stable release of Google Chrome version 69.0.3497.81 to test some of its features. I need to open it and navigate ...
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How to download videos from YouTube with subtitles?
How do I download videos from YouTube with subtitles / captions?
I'd tried by using youtube-dl, with --write-srt --str-lang flags but I always get:
WARNING: video has no closed captions.
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What is the value of MD5 checksums if the MD5 hash itself could potentially also have been manipulated?
Downloads on websites sometimes have an MD5 checksum, allowing people to confirm the integrity of the file. I have heard this is to allow not only corrupted files to be instantly identified before ...
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Does 5 GB of jpeg images take the same amount of time to download and/or import as 5 GB of plain text?
Just wondering, since right now I'm importing all my pictures from a CD my dad burned for me. I was curious if 5 GB of pictures took the same exact amount of time as 5 GB of text when doing these ...
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Download video from Microsoft Stream
I'd like to download video from Microsoft Teams, or better yet, from Microsoft Stream. I read that this function is available only for the owner.
The problem is the following: from tomorrow my ...
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Wget returning error: "Unable to establish SSL connection."
When I try to run Wget with the following options:
E:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>wget -p --html-extension --convert-links --no-check-certificate https://minecraft.net/en-us/
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/...
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How to increase Chrome's connections-per-server?
Google Chrome (by default) only allows 6 concurrent connections per server.
For example, when we download files from dropbox, we can only download a maximum of 6 files concurrently.
How do we change ...
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Google Drive won't let me download my files
I Recently uploaded a .PSD file from work to my personal Google Drive so I can download and work on it at home. Today when I went onto my Google drive to download this file, when I pressed the ...
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download file via http only if changed since last update
I need to download a file from a HTTP server, but only if it changed since the last time I downloaded it (e.g. via the If-Modified-Since header). I also need to use a custom name for the file on my ...
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Downloading file from FTP using cURL
I'm trying to use a cURL command to download a file from an FTP server to a local drive on my computer. I've tried
curl "ftp://myftpsite" --user name:password -Q "CWD /users/myfolder/" -O "myfile....
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Why do Google Chrome downloads stay at 100% for a long time?
I've downloaded a 200MB file from Google Chrome. It took fairly short time for the download to reach 100% (a couple of minutes), but when it reached 100%, it stays at 100% for a long time before ...
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Free Mac OS X application for downloading an entire website [closed]
Is there any free application for downloading an entire site installable on Mac OS X 10.6?
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What program can I use to bulk download this list of links? [closed]
I need a program that I can give a lit of URLs to (either paste or in a file) like below and then it must be able to crawl those links and save files of a certain type, like images for example. I have ...
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How to download a file from a URL?
But let's say I have a URL, and it's either a SWF, a PNG or an MP3 or something. How can I force my browser (in this case I'm using Google Chrome) to download the file, instead of automatically ...
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Downloading from Internet directly to google drive [closed]
I download a file from the Internet to the google drive folder on my local computer.
In this case, the file is first downloaded to my local computer and then uploaded to google's servers from my local ...
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Prevent Chrome from automatically opening downloaded PDF and Image files
When I download a PDF or image in Google Chrome on my Mac, is it possible to prevent Chrome from automatically opening it in my default application for that file type (e.g., Preview)?
I notice that ...
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Download all PDF links in a web page? [closed]
Do you know a good software to download all PDF links in a web page??
Operating system is Windows 7.
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Weird file format while saving files
On Windows 10, Acer Aspire E 15
Whenever I download a pdf file, in the prompt comes up to ask where I want to save it, in the file type, I get some gibberish. This is an example.
However, the file ...
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Disable "Content-Disposition: attachment" and force inline display
Websites which use Content-Disposition: attachment force me to download the document which I dislike.
For example I want to print out the invoices of my ISP for taxation purposes. Their stupid ...
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How to automatically open "saved" pdfs in system viewer on chrome?
As discussed in ghacks and slashdot Chrome no longer lets you automatically open downloaded pdfs in your System viewer.
In general, I like using the built-in Chrome PDF viewer, but for some longer ...
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VPN: Does all traffic get routed through the VPN when I am logged in?
If I log into a slow VPN with only a 15k/s connection, when I try to go to kernel.org or some other site to download something, is everything getting routed through that other network? (so my max ...
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How can I change Windows' default download path?
I'd like to keep my drive paths as clean as possible, and C:\Downloads is much nicer than C:\Users\Myname\Downloads. Can I stop Windows 10 from doing this by default?
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How to download a URL as a file?
A website URL has "hidden" some MP3 files by embedding them as Shockwave files, as follows.
<span class="caption"><!-- Odeo player --><embed src="http://odeo.com/flash/...
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How to download a file from URL in Linux
Usually one would download a file with a URL ending in the file extension.
To download Ubuntu ISO, one would simple
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.3/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
However,...
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What gets uploaded when I surf the web?
I am using a modem, and it shows a download speed of n kbps and an upload speed of m kbps. When I check its logs, it shows the amount of data downloaded and uploaded. I'm wondering why it shows that I'...
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wget - download all files but not preceding folders
I'm using wget to download all files from within a folder using the -r and -np options. However this also downloads the preceding folders, which I don't want.
For example:
wget -r -np ftp://user:...
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How to force Google Chrome to only download PDF but not open them
Recent changes to Google Chrome altered how PDF files are handled. My extreme preference is that PDF files are only downloaded. I will then open the file in my system default PDF viewer if needed.
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What does Firefox do when "scanning for viruses" after download?
Never mind the fact that Firefox is a browser and not a AV tool, but what exactly does it do after a download? Even on systems that have an up-to-date AV this generates a pause of several seconds ...
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Rip a website via HTTP to download images, HTML and CSS
I need to rip a site via HTTP. I need to download the images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as organizing it in a file system.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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How to download Firefox extensions from addons.mozilla.org without installing them?
Pages at the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox site often feature buttons that say "Add to Firefox".
Clicking on such a button causes a Firefox extension to be downloaded and installed.
I am ...
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Make wget download page resources on a different domain
How do you use wget to download an entire site (domain A) when its resources are on another domain, (domain B)?
I've tried: wget -r --level=inf -p -k -E --domains=domainA,domainB http://www.domainA
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How to download files from FTP site in one command line without user interaction (Windows)
I know there is an FTP command which can be run from command line on Windows, and it downloads a file from an FTP site. User + password are specified in "that" one-line cmd.
These options + password ...
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