Automator - problem downloading PDFs from URLs

Remove the Download URLs action from your workflow, and drag/drop Utilities Library : Run Shell Script into the bottom of your workflow. Change the Run Shell Script and its content to what you see above. Click the Run button in the upper right to interactively view progress from the individual action results. You will need to provide it a path to an existing folder where you want the PDF saved. I used ~/Desktop/Test.

Are those URLs current? Some sites use content management solutions (e.g. Drupal) where they use a variable name in place of the actual filename, so they do not have to edit the site if the filename changes, or the location you are attempting to access is silently redirecting you elsewhere. The curl command should have dealt with this, but try a variation shown below in that Run Shell Script action.

You migh try adding a -L to the current command to automatically follow redirects to another site if the page has moved. This won't necessarily be obvious looking at the URL.

/usr/bin/curl -L -s -o "$OUTDIR${f##*/}.pdf" "$f"



Have you considered replacing the Download URLs action with the following: