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As explained in this earlier hint, you can copy and paste into and out of the latest Safari's Downloads window. But this trick gets even more interesting if you have multiple URLs in your clipboard separated by carriage returns! For example, pasting:
http://www.apple.com/switch/stories/images/ellentop07242003.jpg
http://www.members.shaw.ca/envirogrrll5/ellen.gif
will start two new downloads! I used to have WebDevil handy for its useful "Batch URL Download" function ... thanks again Safari!
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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: vancenase on Apr 20, '04 12:05:28PM

very cool! :)



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cue downloads within Safari?
Authored by: brotherjake on Apr 20, '04 02:12:11PM

Maybe I'm over looking the obvious, but does anyone know of any scripts or any other methods that allow one to change the maximum number of downloads in safari? This hint is great-I like the idea of loading multiple files in the download window, but is there a way to limit the number of downloads, and have the remainder cued within Safari's download window?
Example: Instead of having 10 simultaneous downloads from a single site, I have 1 download, and 9 others cued to start after the previous download finishes. Sequential rather than simultaneous that is. Any ideas?



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cue downloads within Safari?
Authored by: pauljlucas on Apr 20, '04 06:11:32PM

I assume you meant "queue" downloads. Anyway, it's trivial with a 3-line shell script and wget.

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- Paul



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cue downloads within Safari?
Authored by: mmmmark on Apr 20, '04 07:08:07PM

Mine used to only do four at a time, then cycle to the next four, etc. Somewhere about 10.3.3 or the latest safari update, it started doing EVERY download at once.

I'm not sure which I prefer, but a preference to control this would be nice (like IE).



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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: scribbleed on Apr 20, '04 11:52:25PM
If you use the Javascript Bookmarklet (Steve Kangas, bookmarklets.com), you can list all the URLs which you can then copy into the Download window (e.g. below direct from the above website):
javascript:WN7z=open('','Z6','width=400,height=200,scrollbars,resizable,menubar');DL5e=document.links;with(WN7z.document){write('<base%20target=_blank>');for(lKi=0;lKi<DL5e.length;lKi++){write(DL5e[lKi].toString().link(DL5e[lKi])+'<br><br>')};void(close())}
You can even filter it with if() statements to only choose certain links like mp3s or pdfs.

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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: jhonny on Apr 21, '04 12:55:13AM

Something even cooler is that you can select multiple items from the activity window, hit copy and paste those to the download window and it will start all the transfers...



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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: GLJones on Apr 21, '04 11:23:49AM

Even cooler.....from the activity viewer, Option-Double Click an item and it will download.

Jerry



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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: Mr Clicky on Apr 21, '04 05:55:55AM

something less cool is that the javascript example above has just made Safari's window scroll horizontally from the far left of my screen out into the kitchen! <:-0



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Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard
Authored by: appleman_design on Apr 21, '04 01:23:22PM
better than that is if your monitor is set to 640/480...it is two doors down the block

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