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Get and search PDFs from the web

This is to remind me how to grab a load of PDFs from a website and do a text search on them:

wget -r -A.pdf http://www.example.com/page-with-pdfs.htm
find . -name "*.pdf" -type f -exec pdftotext {} - \; | grep "thing to search for" -C5

Very useful for searching local council meeting minutes and planning applications!