PDFs damaged when downloading with script

[kaulex99]

When I download the pdf documents with the script, all of them are damaged and can't be opened. Is there anyone else facing this issue or is it only me?

[mitsuhiko]

Please provide more information, in this form this cannot be debugged.

• What operating system are you on?
• Which Python version are you using?
• Do the PDFs work when downloaded from the UI directly?
• What version of the script are you using (commit hash)

[kaulex99]

@mitsuhiko Sorry, here is more information:

1. MacOS Ventura 13.2 (22D49)
2. Python 3.11.1
3. YES
4. Current main branch (checked out yesterday)

[mitsuhiko]

@kaulex99 would you mind mailing me one of the corrupted PDFs?

[kaulex99]

@mitsuhiko No, I will send you a general one via email.

[mitsuhiko]

I looked at the PDF and it's not a PDF, but a HTML error page ("Blocked"). It's because flatex blocked the script again. Needs investigation.

[kaulex99]

Maybe some error handling in the script would be great, just to not download all the pdfs if they are broken. Because the script output looks like if nothing went wrong in general.

[gaambo]

FYI: having the same problem. I'm using Ubuntu 22 (in WSL 2), Python 3.10.6 using current main branch. I'm tried using the SESSIONID param as well as user+password combination.

[mitsuhiko]

Happy to accept PRs. Sadly I don't have much time to deal with this myself.

[floriangaller]

maybe #8 solves this issue

[gaambo]

maybe #8 solves this issue

i just checked out the PR locally and it worked for me (using session-id and flatex.at). thank you 👍

[kaulex99]

@mitsuhiko can you please merge :D

[mitsuhiko]

Merged. Thank you.