DownThemAll! Firefox Extension Makes IRS.gov Less Tedious
For business owners in the United States, the last day of January means it’s time for you (or your accountant) to issue 1099s and W-2s to your contractors and employees. For me, this means I get to do my annual trip to IRS.gov to download the forms.
As government web sites go, IRS.gov isn’t terrible — certainly not as bad as it used to be. But it doesn’t support certain common use cases (like downloading a whole bunch of PDF forms at once) as easily as it could.
You can go to this page on IRS.gov to select forms to download from a list. The list is pretty difficult to navigate, and the filenames for the PDFs you download don’t have the names of the forms in them (just their numbers, ugh).
I found that downloading a bunch of forms at once from this page was much easier with the Firefox extension DownThemAll!. You can go to the IRS.gov search results page, then tell DownThemAll! to download all the .pdf files on that page with just a few clicks. Handy.
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DownThemAll saved my bacon this week when I had to get a whole directory of photos from a website - there were 2800 photos in total - and there wasn’t any FTP access or anything.
I loves me some DownThemAll!