Bulk File Downloader (direct links to Apify storage)

Give it a list of direct file links and get every file saved to Apify storage, with a download link, file name, size, content type and SHA-256 checksum for each one. Works for PDFs, images, CSV and Excel files, ZIP archives, audio and video files: anything served as a file.

Price: US$0.002 per file saved (first 1 MB included), US$0.0002 per extra started MB, plus a US$0.001 run fee. 1,000 images under 1 MB cost US$2.001. A 100 MB video costs US$0.022. Links that fail are not charged.

What people use it for

• Archive documents: save invoices, reports or datasheets from a list of links before they disappear.
• Image sets: pull product or reference images from links you already have, for AI training or catalogues.
• Pipelines: feed downloaded files to OCR, transcription or PDF Actors with stable storage links.
• Integrity checks: compare SHA-256 checksums to spot changed files between runs.

Input

• urls: direct file links, up to 5,000 per run.
• maxFileMb (default 100): larger files are skipped and not charged. Each 1 MB of limit needs 2 MB of run memory, so the default 512 MB memory allows files up to 256 MB. Raise memory in Run options for bigger files (up to 2,000 MB).
• keyPrefix: optional text added to every stored file's key.

Example output

Real output from the sample input (30 Oct 2026).

#	fileName	sizeBytes	contentType
1	Example.jpg	9022	image/jpeg
2	dummy.pdf	13264	application/pdf
3	airtravel.csv	321	text/csv

One full item:

{
  "index": 2,
  "url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
  "fileName": "dummy.pdf",
  "key": "00002-dummy.pdf",
  "downloadUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<store id>/records/00002-dummy.pdf?signature=<signature>",
  "sizeBytes": 13264,
  "contentType": "application/pdf",
  "sha256": "3df79d34abbca99308e79cb94461c1893582604d68329a41fd4bec1885e6adb4",
  "downloadedAt": "2026-10-30T17:23:03+00:00"
}

Rules this Actor follows

• Direct file links only. Web pages are refused, and so are social and streaming sites (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Vimeo and similar). It does not extract videos from platforms.
• robots.txt respected. Files a site disallows for automated clients are skipped and not charged.
• Honest identity, no unblocking. Requests use an honest bot User-Agent. If a site refuses (for example HTTP 403), the file is reported as failed; the Actor never tries to get around it.
• Public hosts only. Private, local and cloud metadata addresses are refused on every redirect hop.
• Polite. At most 2 downloads at a time from the same host.
• Download only files you are allowed to copy.

Where the files go

Files are saved in the run's key-value store (see the "File storage" tab of the run). Each row's downloadUrl opens the file directly. Apify keeps unnamed run storage for 7 days on most plans; copy files elsewhere if you need them longer.

FAQ

Why was a link refused as a web page? The server answered with an HTML page, which usually means a login page, an error page or a preview page. Use the file's own direct link.

Can an AI agent call it? Yes. Compact JSON with stable field names and pay-per-event pricing.

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