Snowed in Northern VA, I decided to checkout techinfo. Paid my $10. I've tried a couple ways to use Adobe to bulk download the site but have been unable to. Maybe they made some changes? I've read other posts on the subject and think I followed them. I tried File > Create PDF > From Web page and Advanced > Web Capture > Append Web Page... I get: No Input File Page Data http://techinfo.toyota.com/ileaf/06toyrm/0...rmsrc/priussrc/ I've updated Acrobat. I've tested it on other sites. hmmm Anybody with recent techinfo success? Thanks! gb
i paid my niece $25 to download each file individually. she did a great job. created a file structure and every thing.
I don't know Acrobat very well, but I was thinking of using curl or wget to mirror the entire structure of the Prius area of their website, so I could pay my $10 once and get the whole shooting match. http://curl.haxx.se/ http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
You have to create an HTML file containing the URLs to all of the PDFs first, and then do "Append all links on page". I've alread posted instructions on how to do this, you can find them with a search.
Well, maybe I just can't handle this.... I *think* I read your posts on this topic. I just went back and reread them and played around a little with it. Using your example I created an html file with this in it.: "aaa aaa" Opened the file in Adobe and clicked "Append all links on page" and got the same error. I am going for 06 files so I was only using your example as a test. When I manually download an 06 file I get a filename/path of "http://techinfo.toyota.com/ileaf/06toyrm/06toypdf/06rmsrc/priussrc/00100110.pdf" Maybe: They changed the structure? I'm too stupid for this? or I'm real close, maybe you can push me over the edge? Thanks! gb
I gave instructions on how to generate the paths to the files: "2) is simple to do by just viewing the frame source for the document list, and comparing it to the full URL to any one of the PDFs (I had to do this in Internet Explorer)." It sounds like things have moved around, but if you can just view the frame source, and get the list of PDFs, and then construct absolute URLs, you should be all set.
I have tried to do the same thing, but I did not successfully download the files by using adobe and get the same error message. It looks like that adobe acorbat 7.0 can not pass the security check even I know the detail file location of 06 Prius. For the repair maunal, the search function only showed 250 documents in the maximum, but if you go into submenu, you will find there are more than 250. Finally, I just download 90% of total files by clicking each file in one day.
You're not stupid, the TIS interface is. http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/toyota-tis-sucks.txt . The 250 search-results limit is the biggest obstacle. If you work around that by getting smaller chunks, you can generate a full HTML index and preserve the directory structure -- this is important because there are lots of relative [e.g. ../../../file/path] links inside the PDFS. Once you've got that, "wget" the whole thing in bulk. . I think that as of '06 the structure has changed a bit; a slightly shallower dir structure and the longer, more numeric and less meaningful filenames. And a lot of the relative links broke. I found this to be true when I grabbed the '06 Highlander hybrid stuff; haven't tried for '06 prius yet. Using that site gives me hives. The only way I could manage to log in on it was to frontend an IE box with a logging proxy, and grab the cookies out of its log to plug into "wget" later. Their support people basically tell you that unless you're running IE, you lose. Even recent firefox with all the bells-n-whistles enabled couldn't deal with it. . _H*
Thanks everyone, for your replies. It beat me, I manually downloaded everything while I was working thru this yesterday. DaveinOlyWA, great idea, I thought about getting my kids to do it but they went snowboarding with their aunt.... jbarnhart, I tried wget but gave up. I was using the Windows version, it probably would have been easier using a *nix version but I wasn't up for that yesterday.... by the way, look at hobbit's wonderful link, apparently he was able to use wget. priusenvy, thanks for trying to help, in the end I decided it was beyond me... husve, I feel your pain... unfortunately I think us mortals are resigned to this until Toyota follows hobbit's suggestions.. hobbit, thanks for your kind words and the link. It was helpful and insightful. I wonder if the obfuscation isn't intentional though, just about has to be, no? I thought they had just added that perl wrapper, I see from your link it was always there. Thanks again! gb
I've confirmed that there are problems logging into the Toyota site with Acrobat 7, but Acrobat 6 still works. And I was able to use the web capture feature and "append all links on page" to download 250 PDF files at once and combine them into a single document. However, as someone else pointed out, there are more than 250 documents that need to be downloaded for at least one of the manuals. As long as you can come up with an efficient way to create the complete list of documents, downloading with Acrobat can save you a lot of time. I didn't investigate any further on how to build the complete document list. So all I can confirm is that the first 250 documents per manual are easy using Acrobat 6.
Hello! I understand that the latest post here was 12 years ago and today is Oct 13 2018. But still may I ask how does techinfo at toyota at com look exactly? I need a few particular things. One of which is locate Prius C transmission fill plug location. Will I be able to do that for those $20 fee within 2 days allowed? Thank you!
