Is there a way to batch open hyperlinked pdfs?

JamieNeils — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:19:06 GMT

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?

Re: Is there a way to batch open hyperlinked pdfs?

XanderBakker — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:30:48 GMT

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()
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