Bulk File & Image Downloader (URLs to ZIP)

Download any list of file URLs (images, PDFs, documents, audio, video, anything) into Apify storage in one run, and get one ZIP with everything. Each file gets a row with its file name, type, size, SHA-256 hash and a direct download link. Identical files are stored once, and you can keep only the types and sizes you want.

Paste URLs, or point it at the dataset of another Actor (a product, real-estate or social media scraper, for example) to download every image it found.

What can this bulk downloader do?

• 📥 Any file type: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, SVG, GIF, PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, ZIP, MP3, MP4 and more.
• 🗜️ One ZIP of everything: ALL_FILES.zip in the run's key-value store, ready to download (up to 200 MB of files).
• 🔗 URLs from other Actors: give a dataset ID and the fields to read (images, imageUrl, url...). Lists of URLs and objects with a url work too.
• 🧬 Duplicate detection: files with identical content are stored once, even from different URLs. Duplicates are free.
• 🎯 Filters: only certain types (image/, pdf, jpg, video/mp4), and a maximum file size.
• 🏷️ Proper names and types: names come from the server or the URL, and the type is checked against the file's own bytes, so a JPG served as "application/octet-stream" still gets .jpg.
• 🔁 Retries on timeouts, rate limits and server errors, and runs resume where they stopped after a migration.

Who uses it?

• E-commerce teams downloading product images found by a store scraper.
• Researchers and analysts saving PDFs, reports and datasets from a list of links.
• Marketers and agencies backing up creatives and media libraries.
• AI and ML teams collecting image datasets, with SHA-256 for de-duplication and integrity.

How to download files in bulk

1. Paste File URLs, one per line, or enter a dataset ID from another Actor run.
2. Optionally set File types, Max file size and whether to Create a ZIP.
3. Click Start. Open the Storage → Key-value store tab for the files and ALL_FILES.zip, or the Output tab for the list.

Input example

{
    "urls": ["https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf", "https://httpbin.org/image/png"],
    "datasetId": "",
    "fileTypes": ["image/", "pdf"],
    "maxFileSizeMb": 25,
    "deduplicate": true,
    "createZip": true
}

Output example

{
    "resultType": "file",
    "url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
    "finalUrl": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
    "fileName": "dummy.pdf",
    "contentType": "application/pdf",
    "sizeBytes": 13264,
    "sha256": "3df79d34abbca99308e79cb94461c1893582604d68329a41fd4bec1885e6adb4",
    "httpStatus": 200,
    "status": "downloaded",
    "key": "dummy.pdf",
    "fileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<store-id>/records/dummy.pdf",
    "downloadedAt": "2026-11-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Every URL gets a row. status is downloaded, duplicate (with duplicateOf), skipped (too large or filtered out, with the reason) or failed (with the HTTP status or error).

Use it from AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)

AI assistants can run this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=rsiddiq95/bulk-file-downloader

How much does it cost?

Pay per file stored, plus a small amount per full megabyte for large files (files under 1 MB pay nothing extra). See the Pricing tab. Failed, skipped and duplicate URLs are free.

Limitations

• Direct file links only. Pages that need a login, a browser or a bot check are not supported; you can pass your own headers (for example a token for your own storage) in Request headers.
• Files are kept in the run's key-value store for your plan's data retention period. Download the ZIP or copy the files elsewhere if you need them longer.
• The ZIP holds up to 200 MB of files; any beyond that are still stored individually and the log says so.
• Maximum single file size is 500 MB.

FAQ

Where are my files? In the run's Storage → Key-value store. Each row's fileUrl links straight to its file.

Something isn't working. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input.