01Overview
Bulk PDF Grabber
Scan any web page for PDF links, pick the ones you want, and download them all in one click — no more clicking "Save As" 15 times in a row.
Features
- Detects PDF links anywhere on the page you're viewing, including LMS wrapper links (e.g. Moodle's mod/resource/view.php?id=...) that don't end in .pdf but show a PDF file-type icon — works across Moodle themes/versions, tested against multiple live Moodle sites
- On Google Classroom, also detects Drive/Docs/Slides/Sheets attachments on Stream and Classwork posts and downloads them as PDFs, with a "Deep scan" that auto-expands and scrolls the page to catch lazy-loaded content
- Tick individual files, or use Select All - Filter the list by filename, or (on Classroom) by file type
- Downloading 10+ files bundles them into a single .zip instead of triggering that many separate downloads — asks for one-time permission to read the file bytes the first time, and falls back to individual downloads if you decline
- Downloads go into a BulkPDFGrabber/ folder inside your normal Downloads folder, organized into a subfolder per class when scanning Classroom
- Nothing is uploaded anywhere — everything happens locally in your browser
Install
From the Chrome Web Store: Link
From a downloaded release (manual install):
- Download the latest .zip from the Releases page and unzip it.
- Open chrome://extensions in Chrome.
- Turn on Developer mode (top right toggle).
- Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
- The extension icon will appear in your toolbar.
How to use
- Open a page that has PDF links on it.
- Click the Bulk PDF Grabber icon in your toolbar.
- Review the list of PDFs it found — everything is selected by default.
- Uncheck anything you don't want, or use the filter box to narrow the list.
- Click Download selected.
- Files will appear in Downloads/BulkPDFGrabber/ — as individual files, or as a single .zip if you selected 10 or more.
If PDFs load onto the page after you've already opened the popup (e.g. on an infinite-scroll page), click the ⟳ button to rescan.
Permissions & privacy
- Active tab / scripting: only used to look at the page you're currently viewing, only when you open the popup — it doesn't run in the background (except on Classroom — see below).
- classroom.google.com (host permission): needed so the extension can keep watching a Classroom page for newly-loaded posts even while you scroll, without you needing to reopen the popup each time.
- Downloads: used to save the files you select to your computer.
- Storage: used to briefly cache the list of files found on a Classroom page so switching tabs and back doesn't lose your scan.
- Optional host permission (requested on demand): only asked for when you download 10+ files at once, to read those specific files' bytes so they can be bundled into a .zip. It's a normal Chrome permission prompt triggered by that click — decline it and the extension just downloads the files individually instead.
This extension does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data to any server. All scanning and downloading happens entirely on your own device, using your own already-signed-in Google session.
Author - sandunMadhushan
License - MIT — see LICENSE
Full policy: POLICY