from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("https://example.com/js-generated-pdf") pdf_url = driver.find_element("tag name", "embed").get_attribute("src") Download normally with requests import requests r = requests.get(pdf_url) with open("output.pdf", "wb") as f: f.write(r.content)
if 'application/pdf' not in r.headers.get('content-type', ''): print("Warning: Response is not a PDF") with open(output_path, 'wb') as f: for chunk in r.iter_content(8192): f.write(chunk) return True except Exception as e: print(f"Failed: e") return False
headers = "Range": f"bytes=existing_size-" response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, stream=True) dead simple python pdf download
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=5) as executor: executor.map(download_one, urls) Some PDFs load via JavaScript (e.g., Google Docs viewer). Use selenium :
response = requests.get("https://secure-site.com/report.pdf", headers=headers, cookies=cookies, auth=("username", "password")) # Basic auth import requests url = "https://example.com/huge.pdf" response = requests.get(url, stream=True) from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver
with open(filename, "ab") as f: # 'ab' = append binary for chunk in response.iter_content(8192): f.write(chunk) import requests from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor urls = [ "https://example.com/doc1.pdf", "https://example.com/doc2.pdf", ]
with open(filename, 'wb') as f: f.write(response.content) stream=True) with open(filename
Save as pdf_downloader.py , call with your URL and filename. Done.