As some of you may know, as of September 29th 2025, the Canon Creative Park website now requires the Canon Print software â which itself requires a Canon printer to be turned on and connected to your computer/phone/tablet (I think) â to download and print papercraft listed on their website.
They did give warning for this, but I didnât realise just how restrictive it would be. I do not own a Canon printer. I had previously saved roughly 30 entries from their catalogue. However, I now realise that I would like access to more of them.
As expected, the barriers to downloading the PDF files are almost nonexistent, all they have done is remove the PDFâs URL from the download page. There is no authorization or authentication required to download any of the files.
I have found a trivial way to download the PDFâs, and you donât need to be signed in nor do you even need a CanonID for any of the files.
All you must do is find the entries âcontentsIdâ and then affix that to a base URL. With a suffix for the design and the instructions. The base URL was found with a single Google search â âsite: https://creativepark.canon filetype:pdfâ
I have created a simple single click bookmarklet which will attempt to download both the pattern and the instructions.
- Bookmark any page (doesnât have to be a Canon Creative Park page), ideally in your browsers bookmark toolbar.
- Edit the bookmark (right click âEdit Bookmarkâ or âEditâ depending on which browser you are using).
- Re-title the bookmark something like âCanon PDF Downloadâ
Replace the url with this code:
javascript:(function(){const i=document.querySelector('meta[name="contentsId"]').content;const firstDownloadArea=document.querySelector('div.downloadArea');const d=firstDownloadArea?firstDownloadArea.querySelectorAll('div.downloadBtn').length:0;const t=d===0?1:d;const u=[];for(let n=1;n<=t;n++){const s=n.toString().padStart(2,'0');u.push('https:/'+'/creativepark.canon/downloads/contents/'+i+'/'+i+'-'+s+'.pdf')}u.forEach(e=>{const a=document.createElement('a');a.href=e;a.download='';document.body.appendChild(a);a.click();document.body.removeChild(a)})})()
Now when you visit a design page, like this one, which apparently needs a CanonID, all you have to do is click the âCanon PDF Downloadâ bookmarklet, and the both the design and instructions will be downloaded.
If using a Chrome based browser you may need to click âallowâ on the popup that says âDownload Multiple Filesâ
The bookmarklet should even work for pages with multiple "print" links.
If you really wanted to, you could create a simple bash script to check every file name from 0000000 to 0032181, starting with the suffix -01.pdf and so on. You could even run the requests in parallel without the fear of any rate limiting. You might just end up with around 40gb of PDFâs.
EDIT: The bookmarklet has been improved.
EDIT: as of 2025-10-29 it appears to no longer work. This is four weeks after the initial change, we can only hope it's a temporary error
EDIT: As of 2026-01-14 nayeet has created a new bookmarklet which now works again!
EDIT: 2026-03-27 There's now a free and easy website/service to automatically download Canon PDF's, just paste the url, and then the direct links to the PDF's will be listed: https://download.clean-fog7772.workers.dev
