Show HN: PDF Recover – Chrome extension for yanking PDFs out of webpages

Category: cli-tool

Tags: chrome-extension, pdf-recovery, debugger-api

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

PDF Recover is a Chrome extension that uses the Chrome Debugger API to intercept and reassemble PDFs streamed as byte-range chunks from web viewers, enabling users to save documents otherwise inaccessible via typical download methods. Its unique approach of capturing chunked HTTP responses and rebuilding the file directly in-browser fills a gap for extracting locked-down or CDN-served PDFs, though it's limited to Chromium browsers and requires active capture before page load.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/unprovable/PDFRecover/ · JavaScript · MIT

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