Trigger download immediately after document ready

Question

I am trying to download a file immediately after a page has been loaded by triggering an a link.

...
<a id="download" href="/some/link/to/download.pdf"></a>

<script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $('#download').trigger("click");
  });

</script>

But this isn't working for some reason. Am I doing something wrong?

Does this one help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39067284/force-file-download-once-a-site-is-visited — patrickb, Sep 05 '20 at 12:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '20 at 14:43

You can dynamically create and click a link when the page loads - simply add this to the page markup:

<script>
  window.onload = function() {
    var a = document.createElement("a");
    a.href = "/some/link/to/download.pdf";
    a.download = true;
    a.click();
  };
</script>

Trigger download immediately after document ready

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