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Receiving data to a local system from a remote system, or initiating such a data transfer.

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How do I download a YouTube video?

How do I download a YouTube video? I have used various solutions in the past that do not seem to work any longer (KeepVid and various Greasemonkey scripts). Is this just no longer possible?
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How exactly does MEGA's download work?

When you download a file from the MEGA service, you are shown a pretty download progress bar within the browser. Once this progress bar reaches 100%, your browser then begins to download the file. ...
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How do I download images from Google Keep?

I shared an image from my phone to Google Keep. I open it on the Google Keep Chrome application. But there's no download option. How do I download images from Google Keep? Is there a work-around?
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Failed - Network error downloading my Google Takeout

I am trying to download my 35GB Google Takeout .tgz file but it keeps failing part way through. On Chrome I might get about 3 GB progress, then it reports Failed - Network error. I have tried ...
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How to download all Google Search images results

Is there a way to automatically download all the images that Google shows up on Google Image Search? I do not want to download the thumbnails and only the actual images in their actual sizes.
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How to obtain the direct link to a YouTube video file

I'm trying to figure out where to find the actual FLV video YouTube files. I've found several tutorials on the Internet, but none that work. So if anyone knows, that'd be much appreciated.
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Is there a way to know how often a file was downloaded from my public Dropbox folder? [closed]

I often put files in my public Dropbox folder and send the public link to people by email. Is there a way to get some sort of report of how often files were accessed? Or is it possible to know the ...
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Link to Bitchute Video at Specific Starting Time

In youtube, you can link to a video at a specific starting time by adding query string parameters, like ?t=23m3s, to the end of the URL. How can this be done with bitchute videos?
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Is there a way to download a complete Tumblr blog?

Are there any tools that let me download an entire Tumblr blog? I'm not just looking for pictures and videos (I've seen tools for that) but also actual blog-posts (text)? Preferably there would be one ...
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How can I download, in bulk, all of the photos in a Flickr "guest pass" URL set?

A photographer friend sent me a Flickr guest pass URL for an event my family also attended. I'm interested in downloading most (might as well be all) of the photos in the set. However, I'm not ...
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How to download all images from Gmail messages?

I have a huge number of e-mail messages saved in Gmail with single image (snapshot.jpg, ~500Kb each) attachments. Some messages are combined into e-mail chains (but not all of them due to e-mail chain ...
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Can't download large file from Google Drive as one single folder, always splits into multiple parts

I was able to download a file (over 70GB when already uploaded as a zip file) with no problems 6 months ago but now it splits everything into multiple zip files? Why is this?
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Where did Mega.co.nz store my download?

So, I had ~3GB free on my local disk and I tried to download a 2GB file. It failed because it said I ran out of disk space. My disk still shows that I have about 400MB free. According to this post (...
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Dropbox folder downloads as 'unspecified' file

I'm trying to download a folder from Dropbox. When I click download, all I get is a file called unspecified. Any idea why this happens?
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Bulk download of images from Flickr?

I want to retrieve some/most of my pictures from Flickr, lost a bunch when a drive went bad. I can't find a way to easily download images other than one at a time. I looked into something called ...
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Is YouTube throttling video downloads now?

A few months ago, Google made some changes to YouTube; they changed how the buffering works and removed the stop download command. Rumors abound that it was because Google was having bandwidth ...
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Is there a way to download an entire Facebook page?

Is there a way to download an entire Facebook page to read it offline? I would like to read posts from particular Facebook page from the oldest to the newest - to do that I would need to scroll to ...
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Is there a way to download all Google Docs?

I know that you can download a ZIP file of all Google Docs, but I have so many documents that the download fails and Google sends me an email with a list of errors about exceeding file size. What is ...
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Download all of someone else's Facebook photos

Is there a way to download all the photos from a Facebook user in a single click way? There are several tools which will download every photo in an album, but if the user has many albums then even ...
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Why doesn't YouTube have a download button?

YouTube has all the buttons—Upload, Browse, Subscribe etc.—, but it doesn't come with an inbuilt “Download” button. Viewers have to use third party software to download the videos from YouTube. Why is ...
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How to (most efficiently) download video from Periscope?

Majority of the search results for "download periscope" lead to websites allowing me to download the app. "download periscope stream" is a much better search term that actually led me to two ...
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How to download a Wikia?

How can I download a Wikia for offline reading? Is there a specific service that I can use to download a Wikia? Once done, how can I read the downloaded file? I don't need images or other media files,...
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Can I download all Google Photos? [duplicate]

I want to download all my photographs from Google Photos. I found out that I can download 500 files in one zip file. I mark the first photo, scroll down 500 photos, press Shift and mark the last photo....
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Downloading entire archive of past messages of a Yahoo Group

I am an owner of a now-defunct Yahoo Group. Apparently, it's been announced that Yahoo Groups is to remove all content December 14 2019 and I would like to save the archive of messages to that group....
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Is it possible to download a published Google Docs as PDF?

I have a published Google Docs on my site and I want users to have the option to download the file as a PDF. It's not important if the link will be within the HTML page or on my site. Link to view ...
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How do I download a TED video?

Does anyone have a method of downloading a video from TED? I tried the techniques here, but they didn't work.
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Is there a good tool to backup the data from all my webapp accounts to my computer? [closed]

Traditionally, you backup your computer's data to the web, but anyone who uses a lot of webapps puts a lot of data out there. Is there a good tool to backup all my gmail mail, facebook pictures and ...
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How can I download subtitles for a Vimeo video?

I've been able to rip a Vimeo video with a Firefox extension. But what about captions? It seems they are not easy to download.
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Download backup of google drive trash folder

I'm not really sure why but for some reason my google drive trash is full of files, and takes up nearly 3 GB. I have the suspect there may be stuff I need in there, but I also really need to free up ...
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Download a "huge" Facebook conversation, in full HTML, with emoticons and attachments

I need to save a "huge" Facebook conversation, in HTML form, with emoticons, photos, and attachments as I see on the browser. There is no solution at this time. With the Facebook option that lets ...
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Batch download photos from Yahoo Groups

I want to download a complete album from a Yahoo Groups group but can't find a way to do it on the webpage except of course to click each photos thumbnail one by one and download the full image from ...
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Password protected download for community [closed]

Our school has a document that they want to share with the parents of the school. We'd like to be able to send a link and password to the school's mailing list. I know that this isn't the most secure ...
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Download 1 sheet from Google Sheets

I've got a spreadsheet (workbook) in Google Drive Sheets that has multiple sheets (tabs/worksheets). I want to export just one worksheet from the workbook as an XLS file. Is this possible? I ...
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Create direct links to videos on Google Drive

How to create non-expiring direct links to video files on Google Drive that will download the file instead of opening them in the browse ?
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Default download folder for draw.io

Can I change the default folder that draw.io saves its' xml files, and and downloaded image files, to? At the moment they keep going to my Downloads folder which doesn't work for me.
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Option to download my Facebook data missing

The option to download my Facebook data (a feature rolled out to everyone last week) is missing, from where it should be on the Account Settings page...
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How can I download a complete TekPub-series without clicking on each episode?

I have an annual subscription to TekPub and want to download a complete series without having to click on each episode and then use the download-link. Is this possible?
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How to download folders larger than 20GB on Dropbox without a Pro account

I have had a folder shared with me containing a few TB of files, about 1GB each. With any other cloud storage service I could simply download the whole folder at once or use something like rclone to ...
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How to download the audio files on Wikipedia pages?

Sometimes a Wikipedia page contains audio files that I would like to download and save, for example, the individual pronunciations in the IPA chart for consonants. However, I wasn't able to find any ...
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How to download all city page of my country from Wikipedia

Will it be moral to copy all city pages information for all cities in my country from Wikipedia? I need those for my website. How can I do it?
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Media purchase and download website that doesn't use proprietary software [closed]

The thing I hate about Itunes is that you have to use proprietary software. What website can you buy the same (mostly) commercial music, and just download mp3's or whatever through a web browser?
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Downloading all my Yahoo! Mail to my desktop computer

I've a free Yahoo! Mail account nearing 300 emails and I want to download the mail to my computer. I also have a backup of the emails in a Gmail account. Is there something in Yahoo! Mail that will ...
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Downloading this blip.tv video

How do I download the video corresponding to the following blip.tv URL? It should be accomplished without the need to install extra software and preferably without requiring JavaScript. http://blip....
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What's the best way to allow people to download multiple files in different folders from Google Drive?

I have a group of 50 files totaling ~10GB that I want to distribute to a small group of people. The files are located in different folders and I expect the entire set to be downloaded weekly about 10 ...
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How to download files from Facebook group?

I'd like to download Files hosted on Facebook group which I'm part of. I couldn't find any relevant API, and the following question at Quora points to extensions which are outdated. The first ...
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Can I easily download all the photos from a set of Gmail messages?

I have a bunch of gmail messages (All in account, or search results, or specific label - I'm fine if the answer applies to any of these sets). Some of them have images, either inline or as ...
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