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Really cool extension man! Is there an option to save the pages individually as images file instead of all pages together in PDF? Again wonderful extension!

I downloaded the extension. I went to the internet archive, and the buttons were not there. What happened? I don't see it. Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? Pls help.

Windows 10 Home 22H2 19045.3208
Brave Browser Version 1.56.11 Chromium: 115.0.5790.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)

File attempted:
https://archive.org/details/vomwortdeslebens0000adle

Attempting to download a book. Received the error:
ReferenceError: showSaveFilePicker is not defined
Please contact the developer.

Internet Archive stores the scanned book page images which are of high resolution. I am not sure if your browse extension downloads the original images and combines them into a single PDF? Is there a way to know the place where original images are stored so that we can download them?
Thank you very much.

Adding a percentage of progess with maybe two decimal places would be nice to see that the download is still continuing when the progress is very slow.

I am using Chrome version 113. When I click download, the progress bar slowly goes up. 30 minutes later(its a long book), the download button says Failed and when I click on it, a message pops up, saying "TypeError: Failed to fetch Please contact developer" or something similar.

Use Case: Try downloading "Possibilities" by "David Graeber". It should fail at page 475 with a dialog.

Will it be possible to get PDF downloads via this extension that are DRM-Free?

I've installed the extension on Chrome Version 122.0.6261.111 via the app store, visited a book, borrowed it, but there are no buttons.

I added this extension to Brave for Mac v 1.50.121 and Chrome for Mac v 111.0.5563.146, and in both browsers, nothing happened. I am logged in to the Internet Archive, I have borrowed a book, I am viewing the book pages, I have refreshed the browser, I have confirmed the extension is enabled. But I see no download button between the quality button and favorite button.

1. I have noticed that iadownloader v0.6.1 has been just released. I am using iadownloader v0.6.0 and It works very well . Shall I upgrade to the latest version?
2. Is there any possibility to return the borrowed books automatically after the download is completed, instead of doing so manually?

For some reason - probably bogus challenges - OLD books that should be public domain are not available to borrow. You can, however, view the full document in the browser. Pretty irritating. Below is an example but I've come across a bunch, recently. I get the sense there are bots abusing the Archive's take-down process. Probably the biggest retailer of hard copies of books like this - which aren't available through the publisher in print nor digitally - is Amazon. If you read the papers you know they're not above something like this. Either way, the public has a right.

Example: https://archive.org/details/chemicalformular0007unse/page/n2/mode/1up

Anyway, thank you for your work. I wish the browser extension economy were more rewarding to developers. If you manage to crack this chestnut I'll buy you a coffee. If you're trying to make actual money maybe you could develop a clever extension for Android?

Cheers

I widness a lot of chunks that only download after 2nd try in the console log. It would be great if I could set a larger retry limit than 3 because this is reached quite often for me.

I used Firefox. I don't why the download failed. I have tried several times. Also, when I used MS Edge, the Quality button does not show up. See the last screenshot below.

When attempting to download https://archive.org/details/introductiontogr0000trud I get the following error:

I have given additional permissions here:

OS: Linux (Debian Testing)
Firefox 117.0 (64-bit) from Debian Unstable in private browsing.

I saw https://elementdavv.github.io/ mentioned in another issue and I get no console errors there outside of missing favicon.ico which is irrelevant.

I'm trying to get a 700 page book and I can never get through more than 60% of the download before it fails. Some way to pick back up where I left off would be incredible.

Amazing tool regardless, thanks so much for making this.

This worked effortlessly. This is BRILLIANT!

Currently on firefox and this has been an issue for me for months. Pulled up chrome, and the extension works perfectly + as intended. If having issues on your browser, try using Chrome for this extension.

As always, I 10000% am so grateful for this extension and thank you so much!!

sincerely, a broke research student with a lack of constant internet

I tried downloading a book and it failed and this message popped up: TypeError: Failed to fetch. Please contact the developer.

Tried this 3 or 4 times, get through about 270 of 340 pages and aborts, pretty much at the same spot. Error log below.

Firefox v 123.

Would be nice if you could preserve a partial download.  The file deletes itself as soon as the error happens 

My OS: Windows 10 Home Edition (version - 22H2)
My Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 116.0.2 (64 bit)

I granted the add-on the needed permissions in its settings tab, I borrow a book, but after clicking the Download button, regardless of quality picked, I get an error message which states: "randomlygeneratedname.pdf could not be saved, because it was not possible to read/access the source file." (the name of the .pdf file changes at every attempt).

Developer asked me to provide a link to the book I'm attempting to download;

https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-review-uk_the-saturday-review_1926-01-02_141_3662

Frankly speaking, though, the error shows up on every book which can only be borrowed (even ones I've been able to download before).

Hello, thank you very much for your wonderful work.
I would like ask whether it is possible to download books that can't be borrowed. For example, I tried this one
https://archive.org/details/cinemababeltrans0000norn

It seems that this can't be downloaded.

Is there anything that needs to be done to activate the extension after installing it? I installed it and then borrowed a book, but the new buttons that are supposed to appear are not appearing.

Hello, I am trying to download a big PDF from IA and whenever is close to completion, it fails to download.
I am on Chrome and I updated to the 6.3 version, and I was able to download a +300MB PDF just a while ago, but this one keeps giving me an error, even after trying all other quality types to see if it was a file size issue.

This is the file I am trying to access: https://archive.org/details/longmananthology0001unse_p9n3/page/n3/mode/2up

Running into an issue it seems a couple others have had in the past - when the download bar shows as complete (or almost complete, it still shows as "downloading" even when the download bar is full and asks "abort?" if I click on it again), it only downloads a 0 byte PDF and a crswap file. (Have my adblocks on that page disabled; not sure what else might be going on.)

I'm running on a Mac OS 13.0 / Chrome v. 119.0.6045.159; the book in question is this one: https://archive.org/details/isbn_0329134477

(I also gave it a try on Firefox and got a "TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource..
Please contact the developer" message.)

Until today I'd never used Edge, favoring Firefox or Brave for a Chrome like experience. I've removed Chrome from my Windows PC.

Tried this in Brave today and the error message was
archive.org says
ReferenceError: showSaveFilePicker is not defined
Please contact the developer.

Brave Version - Version 1.51.118 Chromium: 113.0.5672.126 (Official Build) (64-bit)

The following error always pops up whenever I click on download:

TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
Please contact the developer.

This is on Firefox 114.0.1, Arch Linux. I tried different books, borrow for one hour, borrow for fourteen days, but the same error appears. Let me know if you need any more information.

Thank you for the last version.
It works perfectly with Zip Files.
PDF files are corrupted. after the download finishes and the book is returned, the PDF files takes 0 Bytes.
I guess it is better not to return the book immediately. you should make it wait for about 30 seconds before being returned.... probably more time with old and slow computers. This will give enough time to the book to be fully compiled.

There are certain books that are too long to download within their 1 hour loan period, which causes the extension to fail partially through the download.

One workaround for this is to use a lower quality for the download. However, would it be possible for the extension to save its progress on a particular book and resume the download after the user re-borrows it?

OS: Windows 8.1
Browser: Google Chrome Version 109.0.5414.120
I noticed that Your extension for chrome is not working properly the last three days. The downloading process often stops at about 99%.
The " complete " caption never appears with a lot of books.
The downloaded PDf files are often damaged while the zip files miss the back covers of the downloaded books.
I can download the books only by refreshing the process several times.
Previously, I could download 7 books at the same time without any trouble. but now, from the seven books only one book get the complete caption. Sometime, no book ....
For example: https://archive.org/details/shipssailorssea0000humb
It took me 4 refreshing attempts to be able to download this book.
Thanks in Advance.