Internet Archive Downloader (2024)

Download PDF books from archive.org

Internet Archive (archive.org) holds more than 34 millions books available for public. Some books can be read online by borrowing for a limit period. This extension can download these books for offline reading.HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org) support added. All books with full view permission can be downloaded.UsageFor Internet Archive (https://archive.org/):After borrowing a book, two new buttons, "Quality" and "Download", appear under the book viewer alongside the "Favorite" button.To get the current book as a PDF file, press the "Download" button.To get each leaf as a JPEG file, press the "Download" button while holding Ctrl key (Command key on Mac).To get only a range of leafs, press the "Download" button while holding Alt key (Option key on Mac), then input a range.During the download progress, the button transforms into a progress bar.There are multiple leaf qualities for each book with up to four levels available. To select preferred quality, press the stars on the "Quality" button. The default option is the best quality, which preserves the original image without scaled it down.For HathiTrust (https://hathitrust.org/):No login, no borrows required. For books with full permission, a new section, "Ayesha", appears above the "Download" section on the left-hand side of the page. The section contains three buttons, "Quality", "Tasks" and "Download".To get the current book as a PDF file, press the "Download" button.To get each leaf as a JPEG/PNG file, press the "Download" button while holding Ctrl key (Command key on Mac).To get only a range of leafs, press the "Download" button while holding Alt key (Option key on Mac), then input a range.During the download progress, the button transforms into a progress bar.There are multiple leaf qualities for each book with four levels available. To select preferred quality, press the "Quality" button. The first option, "full size", will download every leaf in its maximum size, but the size may be much different between each leafs. Other options will download all leafs in almost the same size.The third button is "Tasks", which indicates the task number of a download process running synchronously. HathiTrust server does not allowed frequent access. So the download process will take some breaks. Choose a suitable task number to get the best experience.AvailabilityFor Brave below version 1.67.119, item 'File System Access API' on 'brave://flags' page should be enabled.Change logv0.7.2* Add Leaf range selection support* On range download, the range number was appended to the default downloaded filenamev0.7.0* Add hathitrust.org support* Add PNG leaf type support* Add Http 502/504 gateway errors support, when that happened download will retry, not just abort* If the buttons does not appear due to slow network, you can show it manually by clicking the extension icon on the browser toolbar after the page being loadedv0.6.3* Possible download succeeded with 0 byte PDF file for large books. Now fixedv0.6.2* Quality code was appended to the default downloaded filename* Books will be returned automatically on successful download for availablity to other usersv0.6.1* Possibble leaf lost caused by unexpected abort. Now fixed* In some browsers under incorrect settings, download succeeded but no PDF file found. Now fixed* For Brave, whenever the browser is launched, the extension have to be refreshed. Now fixedv0.6.0* Downloads will now retry automatically on network errors. So it will work more smoothly than ever* Download process can be aborted at any time. There is no need to wait for cleaning up any more* Inaccurate button title place. Now fixed* More browsers are supported* Compatibility improvementsv0.5.0* Add option of download as JPEG filesv0.4.0* Retrieve the leaf info from book structure instead of from book view page, in case it may be incorrect on boundary conditions* Add metadata to the PDF file* Add button title with the same style as the page* The buttons show up quickly even on slow network now* Improve the reliability and stabilityv0.3.0* Add option of leaf quality* Constraint the download function to the books that can be borrowed, don't interfere with the books of always available* Clean uncompleted files on failed/canceled downloadsv0.2.0* Download to a whole PDF book* Independant of CORS extensionv0.1.0* Download each leaf to a single JPEG file* Dependant on CORS extension

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