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Here's a solution from the archives that I've used. If you are downloading a PDF you can use the trick where you check the size of the pdf every few seconds, knowing that if the size hasn't changed in the last 10 seconds it's downloaded.

On Aug 2, 2009, at 6:01am, Adam Morris wrote:

Hi all,

I have a program that downloads the PDFs provided from a webpage from my university (for copying automatically to my Kindle). I've been using the delay command to make it wait for the download and has worked fine, but I've always wanted a script function that would loop until Safari's front page stopped loading. This is what I have been using:

on waitforload()
tell application "Safari"
delay 1
repeat
set thisDoc to front document
if (do _javascript_ "document.readyState" in thisDoc) is "complete" then exit repeat
delay 2 -- wait a second before checking again
end repeat
delay 1
end tell
end waitforload

This only works for the loading of the HTML/CSS/DOM side, but doesn't reflect the fact that, in some cases (including mine) the document.readyState shows "complete" even though the document itself actually downloading a PDF.

References:
	>I need to allow a web page to fully load before saving it with my script (From: Jeff Porrello <email@hidden>)