Shop manuals

I picked up a set there because Toyota doesn't offer access to the techinfo site if you don't live in the US - they really didn't leave me much option.

That said, it's worth every penny - a truely fascinating read. There's stuff in there that any techy could appreciate. Every connector, wire, pin is labeled and explained.

Great stuff.

 

Thanks for the tip about ebay just bought 2 one for me and a friend.

 

It appears that the ebay seller is not offering the cd's anymore. Anyone care to sell a copy? Thanks

 

Hey all,
I got sick of the endless clicking on toyota.techinfo.com, so I tried to buck the system a bit. I wrote a script which tried to download everything for the 2004 Prius at once.

I didn't get as far as I had hoped (I couldn't get past their "cookie" logic, for the other web geeks out there), and I ran out of time (I only had one evening to do it), but I did manage to get a complete list of the URLs for all their independent PDF documents.

Just sign up for the techinfo site (sorry, you still have to pay them the $10), then open a new web browser and go to my site here:
http://www.kevincooney.com/projects/prius/output.html

You can right-click on each link and select "Save Target As..." Still tons of clicking (took me about an hour to get all I wanted), but about a third less than doing it through the techinfo site directly. I'd also suggest making a lot of new folders, because they have a tendency to re-use file names, so you'll end of overwriting files if you try to save them all to the same folder.

Hope that helps (especially if you can't find the CD on eBay)!

Kevin

P.S. Web Geeks: If anyone out there knows how to work with session cookies and wget (or the Perl LWP::Simple module), let me know. I might be able to finish my script to automate the download from techinfo.
P.P.S. For any concerned about legality, as far as I know this is perfectly legal. You're still paying for they're content, and I'm not making anything off it.

 

There is a utility called "curl" (I think for capture URL), normally used on Linux systems, but also exists on Windows.

It is a utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others).

You have the URLs listed on Kevin's web site; using those, batch files in the windows envoronment may be written to save the files to your local system like this:

curl "http://(your URL goes here)" > (local file name goes here)

On this cookie-based system, I think you would still have to run it on a system which is already logged in with username and password, but I've never tried it on a secure system.

Good luck!

 

Kevin,

You might want to have a look at the LWP:Simple:Cookies module -- that will give you the cookie support you need.

If you want to use wget instead, there is the --cookies option, and --load-cookies which you'd need to seed with a valid cookie for the techinfo site.

Alternatively, as mentioned above by JJay, there is also curl. Using the -b option to set a cookie (or a cookie from a file), with -D (to dump headers from the request - including new/updated cookies) will also let you use session cookies to grab all the files.

In all the cases above, you'll need to start with a valid session cookie from the techinfo site. This can either be grabbed programatically, or by checking the SMSESSION cookie set for .toyota.com in the browser you used to access the techinfo site. In any case, you 'll need a valid login/password ($10/day as previous mentioned).

Thanks for providing the links to the relevant documents on the site. There is another set of links posted to the files section of the Prius-2G Yahoo! group. I haven't checked to see if yours of the YG one is more complete.

Gene

 

Oh man, someone beat me to it? And here I was thinking I was all clever. Oh well

 

If you get the ebay CD, as I did check it out. Mine was labelled Prius '04 but was actually for carolla. Notified seller and he sent correct one.

 

I sent a message to the seller of this auction, and ordered one through email and paid via Paypal. Much easier than trying to download all the info. Try
shardauto @ mailnew.com (take out the spaces).

It was an interesting CD. No index but lots of stuff in pdf format!

 

800-900 PDF files with no index? Ouch. Did they at least sort the PDFs into the various manuals (Collision, Repair, Owners) and the NCF and/or name the files nicely?

When/if our Prius actually arrives, I'll need to whip up a little search engine for the PDFs. Even an index leaves a lot to be sdesired when the manuals are broken up into such small chunks.

 

there is a really useable search feature in acrobat6 that allows word searches in the whole maual. very useable.

 

mind you the best way to use it is to create a folder and dump the whole cd into it (it's quite small) and then search from there. Searching off the cd is like getting teeth pulled.

 

Best case is to take all those PDF's and compile them into their correct BOOK form. S I have books and not 100's of files... and even indexed..

And before you ask.. I know of only one way to do this... you must have the Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 Standard or better to have the tools you need to do the work... I do not have this... a coworker did and it cost me a steak dinner.

But note that the Ebay version is missing some pages ??

Later

 

Really??? I have Acrobat Pro 6.0 and was planning on doing this when I got some time together. Do you know which pages the Ebay version is missing?

 

Not sure, but I believe there are some ?intententional missing pages in the download. Vague memory of discussion elsewhere.