Download any file without signing up for it on the website

You might have came across the situation where you wanted to download a book but you weren’t allowed to do so without signing up in the website. I met with a same situation and guess what I found; you can easily download the file if there’s only a sign up that is stopping you.

Following is what happened generally:

You click on the download button — the page redirects to the download link and then to the sign up link (if not their member) — you then sign up and it allows you to download the file.

If you want to sign up then it’s cool otherwise you can follow the steps below:

1. Check if the download button redirect to the download link and returns back to the sign up page or any dialogue or something like that suddenly.
2. If that happens you got a chance there. :) Now, if you are on a desktop/laptop then right click on that button and select “download link” option from the menu, if that’s not there then there will be a “copy the link” option, download through that link directly using any downloader.
3. Now, if you are using a smart phone, then hold the download button and you will get a menu appeared right there, go for the “download the link” option and your download will start immediately.

Below is what actually happens in such cases:

The download button is embedded with the link and you can see this in the Inspect Element of the button in the browser and when the button is clicked, a function is called which checks if the user is signed in or not and redirects to the sign in/up page accordingly.

Enjoy your downloads now.