Make sure you do that last step of setting the execution policy back to what it originally was once you are done downloading otherwise you are leaving your system unnecessarily vulnerable. If you haven't already set PowerShell to execute remote scripts, follow these instructions to do so. You will need to run it as admin if you haven't already set the execution policy, as outlined in the next step. You can do so by opening the Start menu and typing 'powershell' then selecting it. Make sure you save the file when done!įire up a PowerShell instance. At a minimum you are going to want to edit the $masterDirectory variable to point to where you want the downloaded files to be placed.

is preferred but even just Notepad will work.įollow the instructions in the comments of the script. A code editor like VS Code, Sublime, Notepad++, Atom, Brackets, etc. Open the script with some kind of editor. In the same directory as where you intend to download these would be a good choice. In order to run the script you will need to perform the following steps:Ĭopy it someplace easy to find. Way faster than manually downloading one by one anyway.

That means it will take a little while but it's hands-off so I didn't consider that an issue. Please note that it downloads these sequentially because I don't feel like trying to manage thread counts for this. The Mac and Linux folks can follow the official guide on bulk downloading here. See the script for instructions on customizing it and how it works. By default it is set to download both of them. This script will automatically download all the Dungeon Magazine PDFs, the Dragon Magazine PDFs, or both. I have expanded it into the script below. I haven't really used PowerShell before - more of a Unix/Linux guy when it comes to scripting - so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn it. Scripting it is! /u/Ph03n1xoverlord had this excellent post where they wrote a little PowerShell script to automatically download all save one of the Dungeon Magazine PDFs. Now that's a lot of links and being a developer there's no way I am manually clicking them. I also found that Dragon Magazine is available on there as well. I put it on my list of stuff to eventually do and here now a year later I finally got around to it. A little over a year ago /u/dac8767 submitted an excellent post on how you can download every issue of Dungeon Magazine for free at.

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