download-gated-pdfs

download-gated-pdfs is a Web scraping & data collection skill for AI agents, published by kennethkhoocy in the applied-micro-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates download-gated-pdfs D (66/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Download the actual PDF binary from bot-gated sites (taxpolicycenter.org, urban.org, SSRN-hosted mirrors, think-tank/publisher sites) via the Wayback Machine id_ URL form. Use when: (1) curl/WebFetch of a .pdf URL returns HTML instead of a PDF even with a browser User-Agent, (2) pypdf fails with "invalid pdf header: b'<!DOC'" or "EOF marker not found" on a freshly downloaded file, (3) Firecrawl can parse the PDF to markdown but you need the original file on disk (e.g., filing a reference copy).

Grade
D
Quality
66 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
28

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View source on GitHubkennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills

Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.

Not checked yet

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  • Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
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  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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