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[BASH] Download all MagPi Issues at once (sequentially) // Because official download page is not user friendly
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MagPi_Issues.sh
#!/bin/bash
TOTAL=$(curl -s "https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/" | grep -Eo "\"MagPi[0-9]+.pdf" | wc -l)
for issue in $(eval echo {01..$TOTAL}); do
[ ! -f "MagPi$issue.pdf" ] && curl -Os "https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi$issue.pdf"
done
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Avaray commented Jul 23, 2021

Today I wanted to put some new features into this script and I realised that MagPi changed Download System some time ago (from issue #87). So, this script doesn't work for numbers 87+. Unique ID for download is generated when visiting DL URL for specific issue. I think it's impossible to obtain that unique download ID without visiting that URL (with headless browser for example). If you will CURL/WGET that DL URL, you won't get that ID.

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