Saving multiple PDF files into a folder

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Hi everyone, would like to ask how can I save multiple PDF files from a website into a folder? Thanks for the help.

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One way is, click on the link, click on download option, copy the file from download folder to target folder.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. However i am looking for alternative that can save up to over hundreds of files for example. Is there a solution for this? Thanks

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First of all the website should allow you to download so many files at a time, then we can figure out how to do the same in UiPath. Does it allow ?

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Is there a function to download all the files?

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If the files are hosted in an ftp location, then you can write a workflow to find out the files and download.Otherwise it is difficult. Share the website url.

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http://www.ocbc.com/group/index.html

Lets say i want to extract the pdf files from the Financial results. Thanks

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It is possible, but little tedious, there is a uniformity in the pdf url, so you can write a workflow

http://www.ocbc.com/assets/pdf/quarterly-results/2018/OCBC%203Q18%20Financial%20Results.pdf
http://www.ocbc.com/assets/pdf/quarterly-results/2018/OCBC%202Q18%20Financial%20Results.pdf

Logic

  1. prompt for starting qtr and ending qtr

  2. Loop (for each qtr)
    2.1 url = “http://www.ocbc.com/assets/pdf/quarterly-results/2018/OCBC%203Q18%20Financial%20Results.pdf”

    2.2 image

    2.3 save pdf

Note : url should be constructed for each iteration

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Thanks for the alternative solution. Is it possible to use web scraping to get the URL instead?

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I doubt because, web scrapping can only provide you the text visible on the webpage, but not the underlying url.

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I see, so the only solution is to loop through the URL 1 by 1?

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There may be, but I am not aware of.

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if your files are in table structure you can use scraping to extract all URL and then you can loop one by one.

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Thanks for the reply. Is the example I sent above in table structure? Or i have to get all URLs in the excel first?
At the same time, i tried scraping the PDFs from the above example but i could not get the complete URL. ie. the website URL is missing(www.ocbc.com)