Motivation

I collected URLs to download in browser, but I noticed that it's impossible to download them without copy-pasting. Copy-pasting was quite inconvenient because each page contained dynamic list of URLs. To resolve this problem I decided to send this list via request to local endpoint.

Unfortunately I haven't found such packages in NPM which allows to do it. Due to this reason I decided to create mine.

How to use?

1. Install this package globally

   npm i -g ajax-file-loader

2. Start it in folder where you want to store downloaded files

   ajax-file-loader

   This action will open new Express server on port 3035.

   Notice: you can use your own port using AFL_PORT env var

   export AFL_PORT=4205

   Hint: you can start package using alias afl. You also can setup package port only for current run

   AFL_PORT=4205 afl

3. When you have a running server, you need to send request with URLs to download.

   Request must be in the next format

   curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:3035' \
   --header 'content-type: application/json' \
   --data-raw '{"chunkName":"folder-to-save","files":["https://site.domain/file.to.download"]}'

   Or same from browser

   fetch('http://localhost:3035', {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: {
       'Content-Type': 'application/json'
     },
     body:
       JSON.stringify({
         chunkName:"folder-to-save",
         files:["https://site.domain/file.to.download"]
       })
   })

I hope it's enough

Feel free to ask question and make your proposal for improvements on Github