Questions tagged [download]
Receiving data to a local system from a remote system, or initiating such a data transfer.
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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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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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Unable to download large files from Google Drive
I am trying to download two files originally linked on this page. The author has edited the linked page but an archived version of the page and files I was referring to can be found here. The links ...
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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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When does Gmail load an image (one that comes with an e-mail) into its proxy?
Gmail has a function that proxies the loading of images. When it is turned on, the moment you click "show images" in an e-mail you have received in your Gmail, you get to see the image stored in ...
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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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Download videos from UNFCCC webcast service (azuremediaplayer - azure.net) [closed]
We are trying to download the video stream from the UNFCCC webcasts, that is, from the Climate Change Conference.
"Video DownloadHelper" provides no good solution, as there are 4 audio streams and ...
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How do I download a COMPLETE Wikia database?
I have been trying to download Wikias databases (for example the Marvel Wikia) with the official method (as mentioned in this similar question) but when I download the XML file it only contains about ...
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Bulk download PDFs from Google Scholar
I would like to download ~100 scholarly articles from Google Scholar. I have institutional access, so Google Scholar presents the available PDF. Is there a way to automate the downloading of the PDF ...
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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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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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Downloadable zip file in Blogger?
I am considering creating a blog in Blogger. I would like the blog to include a link to a zip file which would contain source code.
Two questions:
According to Sharing Files on Blogger, it was 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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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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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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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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How to download or copy files sent to me in Dropbox to my PC or USB thumb drive
Someone put files in Dropbox for me and I want to download them, or copy them to my PC (or a USB thumb drive). But I don't see where I indicate I want the file downloaded/copied!
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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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Can I download a folder hierarchy full of Google Docs? [duplicate]
I have a folder on Google Drive full of Google Docs (i.e. the MS Word equivalent). I'd like to download all of these, exporting them to either MS Word or PDF. However, the only way I can find to do ...
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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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Download files from Google Presentations
I am working with Google Presentations with my students. I'd like to offer them the option to download other documents (Excel, PDF, etc) from my Google Drive connected with my Presentations, using a ...
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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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How can I download a Picaboo photobook?
I created a photobook in Picaboo: is there any way to download it (e.g. as a PDF)?
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Where do I download Instagram for use on a PC? [closed]
Where do I go to download Instagram on a PC and how much data is it gonna take? How much does it cost?
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Split one .rar file on Drive into several files before downloading
How I can split one file (.rar), stored on Google Drive, into several files to ease download to my PC?
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How does the Mega.co.nz download progress-bar work?
The Question is in the title: How does the Mega.co.nz download progress-bar work? I know about the filesystem API, but how are the files streamed from the server to the filesystem? How do they get the ...
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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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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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Mega Downloads on Mac OSX
It is known that in Windows mega uses the fileSystem API, which basically writes the file to a sandboxed section of your local file system:
AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System\
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How does the conversion of torrent to direct link work? [closed]
I know there are lots of sites that convert torrent links to IDM or a direct link.
I am interested in how that conversion works.
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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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How to get YouTube direct link with extension?
I know it is possible to get YouTube direct links nowadays online, like using clipconverter.cc or keepvid.com. This works well. But there is a little problem.
For example, if I try to grab direct ...
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How to download files from Coursera online courses using any grabber or any other online method?
I have registered for one of the online courses on coursera.org. When the course is completed there will be around 60 or more .pdf slides and corresponding video lectures. I tried downloading using ...
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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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Get the local path of streamed video
I watch movies online (not on YouTube). As my internet speed is slow (512 kbps), I watch the movie while streaming instead of downloading and then watching. I have seen that I can move the seek bar to ...
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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 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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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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Save APK files from Google Play on desktop/laptop
I used to browse Google Play apps through my laptop regularly. Is there any way that I can store the Android applications (.apk files) into my laptop? In other words, download the .apk file straight ...
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Google Code downloads discontinued: What to use instead? [closed]
Google Code's downloads feature allows project maintainers to upload binary files at no cost, either:
using the web interface, or
using an API, which is very convenient to integrate in build script.
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Get direct link from a soundcloud for use in download managers
There's a sound clip on soundcloud that has a "download" button.. It's a large mp3 (150 MB+), when I click it, download starts on the crappy chrome and due to some reason, it got stuck at 60%.
Now I ...
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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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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 to save buffered You Tube video
I am watching some video lectures on You Tube (licensed under Creative Commons - Don't know the version but I have right to copy).. So, after watching (streaming), how to download the buffered content....
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Who has downloaded my offered files already? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to know how often a file was downloaded from my public Dropbox folder?
I offered some people in my family to download files via Dropbox.
How do I know once ...
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Temporary storage webapp
I have a file foo.zip, that I want hosted on the internet somewhere, and that can be downloaded with a wget command. I have tried a few options (including Google Drive), but each time I end up ...
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Activist shared printing material gallery
What would you say would be the best way to do this:
We would like to create a section on our activist community FB page and website in order to share with everyone images and files ready for ...
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Uploadnsell: terms of service nowhere to be found [closed]
Someone asked me where he could sell digital files.
I have found Uploadnsell which promises to take no commissions at all.
Customer pays to the uploader's PayPal account, and can download from ...
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Amazon website not loading completely [closed]
For the last few months now, I've been having problems with the (German) Amazon website.
One day, the website stopped loading correctly. Since that, my browser (Firefox as well as Internet Explorer) ...
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