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Learn more. What program can I use to bulk download this list of links? Asked 10 years, 7 months ago. Active 6 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Cheeky Cheeky 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. DiegoDD Somehow this question received attention today and that is hilarious.

You can also see the remaining parts of the links Annoying that this is closed as off topic, but this works amazing to save bulk html to pdf if you can write a simple c program: code.

HtmlToPdf — Micro. Why would this be off topic? It's asking a question about how to accomplish a task that only a super user would typically be doing Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can paste in a list of URLs and it'll download them, no fuss :- It also has the ability to download every tab open in the active window, hence the name. Improve this answer.

Louis Maddox Louis Maddox 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. In many cases, you can just use a download tool like wget or uGet. Wget comes stock in Linux, but neither of those come stock on Windows. In that case, how do you do it? All you have is whatever ships with Windows Luckily Windows 10 does ship with some things in the cmd. To read a line at a time from our file lof. To download the content of a URL, you can use the built-in curl. Type curl -h in your command window to see the help for it.

At the most basic, you can just give curl a URL as an argument and it will spew back the contents of that URL to the screen. For example, try:. We can store them in a file by using the -o or —output option. That means we need to figure out an output name. It makes sense to base that output name on the URL in some way.

Our curl command for that would look like:. This will open the folder that the file was downloaded and saved to. File download managers have a feature similar to browsers. The settings are normally where you can set the folder that all files should be downloaded to. Right-click the downloaded file or the in-progress download in the torrent client.

The context menu will have an option called open containing folder, or something similar. Clicking it will open the folder that the downloaded file is in. Amazing trick! Unfortunately is working only for certain folders and I couldnt identify whats the selection criteria. I only can tell that Microsoft Excel Security Notice says "Microsoft Office has identify a potential security concern. This location may be unsafe. Thanks for any suggestion. Is there a way to add a single filename to a row with all of the additional info that comes with using the Kutools import filenames function?

I populated a spreadsheet using the import filenames function and now I need to add additional files. Thanks in advance. Hello, Kollars, Could you give some more details of your problem? Or you can insert a screenshot for explaining your problem.

Hi Skyyang, So, say that I've opened a blank spreadsheet and imported a filenames list from a folder using Kutools "Import Filename List". Later I add a new file to that folder. Now I want to import the filename for only that file into the same spreadsheet. Is this possible and how do I do it? Dear Kollars, If you have new file names need to import, you should apply the Filename List again. And it will import all the filenames once more. Thank you Skyyang. It would be good to have a way to import only selected files into the list.

Maybe a feature you could include in a future release. Hi, Kollars, We will consider your suggestion, thank you very much! Excellent help and clear instructions, appreciate the time spent on this. You can use the terminal as well. Start cmd. Run the command 'notepad.

Open Excel. I wish more Windows users could use the terminal to solve simple things like this. This is great! You can also just put the line:. You could even have excel read in the external txt file, so you only need to double click the batch file to refresh the data in excel.

When you have imported your text into Excel, it's still text. It's in long lines of text you then need to write formulas for, to break it up into useable data. Then you need to manually remove the superfluous data and blank lines you don't need. This solution is a way of getting a list of files into Excel, but without a huge amount of manual manipulation, it's useless. Great Info! Easy and to the point. Love your work. Thank you for the simple solution! Excellent info! This saved hours of work!

Thank you!