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Download all the learning materials I bought into one folder

A developer asked his dot to download all the English learning materials he had purchased from a page and gather them in a folder. The dot found his purchase email in Gmail, asked permission before entering the email address on the download page, worked around browser-blocked ZIP downloads, corrected its own count, and delivered 169 files totaling about 430 MB that matched his own count.

How it works

  1. Read the request
  2. Find the purchase email in Gmail
  3. Ask permission to enter the email on the download page
  4. Download 1 PDF, 4 audio ZIPs and 164 MP3s
  5. Work around Chrome-blocked ZIP downloads without changing security settings
  6. Correct its own file count
  7. Deliver about 430 MB in one folder

Why it’s worth knowing

It verified itself against the user's own count and caught files it had initially overlooked.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on dev.to. See the original ↗

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