Is there a way to batch open hyperlinked pdfs?

Question

I have a point feature class in a personal geodatabase.  I would like to select a group of points and open all the hyperlinked pdf documents in the group, or even export all the hyperlinked pdfs somewhere.  Any ideas?

XanderBakker · Answer

You can create a list of the URL's and then use the code below to download them: def main(): import os folder = r'C:\GeoNet\DownloadPDFs' # loop through selected hyperlinks and create the list of PDF urls lst = ['http://www.esri.com/training/assets/downloads/esri-course-catalog.pdf', 'http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis-desktop.pdf', 'http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgisextbro.pdf', 'http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis-for-mobile.pdf', 'http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis-online.pdf'] # process pdfs for pdf_url in lst: pdf_out = os.path.join(folder, os.path.split(pdf_url)[1]) print(pdf_out) download_file(pdf_url, pdf_out) def download_file(download_url, output_pdf): # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24844729/download-pdf-using-urllib response = urllib2.urlopen(download_url) file = open(output_pdf, 'wb') file.write(response.read()) file.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main() ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍