We all know how frustrating it is not being able to download the study materials our faculties upload on the official elearning or pulms website right, especially when the pdf is big pr network quality is bad it may take quite sometime to load.

Well i have got some good news, I found a workaround to download the PDF from there.

This method requires use of DevTools and only works on desktop!.

So, lets see how its done

Step - 1:

Login to PULMS

Step - 2:

Navigate to classrooms section and open your classroom, You will find the subjects listed.

Step - 3:

Open the desired subject and head over to ‘classwork’ section where all the materials will be listed

Step - 4:

Now, this is where main trick starts. Open the DevTools and navigate to the Network tab.

Step - 5:

Open the PDF you want to read. Now as soon as you click on “Click to View” to open the PDF, you should see ton of network requests populating in the ‘Network’ tab.

Step - 6:

In the requests listed, you have to look for a specific fetch request with status: 200, this request doesnt have a fixed name as it keeps changing with the classroom id so you will have to struggle a bit to find the correct one, but it wont be hard if you followed steps 4 and 5 properly.

• To give it away the size of request will be 600+ KB or biggest of all other request size.

Step - 7:

Now click on that fetch request and you will see its info. In that you will find the URL of PDF as Request URL in “Headers” tab, this URL will look something like
https://storage.googleapis.com/parul-local-tmp/221f7eba-f1fc-469c-95de-57060b4668ae-coa_ppts.pdf
(yeah Google firebase storage bucket URL).

Step - 8:

Now, copy and paste this URL into your browser and file will start downloading.

Voila!, You downloaded the PDF from PULMS.

I hope you liked this tutorial.