The Standard Download Files Tool

Before you get started, ensure you have Ruby downloaded and installed on your computer.

Getting Started

• Open the Terminal application
• Navigate to Desktop with this command
  • cd ~/Desktop
• Clone this repository with this command
  • git clone https://github.com/iarobinson/the_standard_download_files_tool
• Change directories into this file with this command
  • cd the_standard_download_files_tool

If you want to use the media URLs for Dune by Frank Herbert and the URLS here are still valid (they are valid as of Oct. 7th, 2021) you can run the following script: ruby download_script.rb

Be patient, there is no loading graphic here.

The files should start populating in this folder.

If you want to use a different collection of URLs, follow the instructions in How to Get an Array of URLS using JavaScript.

How to Get an Array of URLS using JavaScript

This tool is set to work on this webpage as of Oct. 7th 2021

• Load the https://bookaudio.online/651-dune.html
• Right click anywhere on the page
• Select inspect element
• Slect console tab
• Paste the code that you see in getURLS.js into the console:
• Finally, type in urls and you will get an array of URL strings
• Right click on this big list of URLS that result and click copy
• Paste that into the download_script.rb so the list of URLS is an array of strings
• Follow instructions in getURLS.js