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Reading a public PDF can extract its text, while downloading preserves the PDF bytes. A video transcript is speech text, and a watch-page URL is a page address; neither is a video file. Use the representation the task actually needs, and say which one you obtained. This URL was used in a September 2026 read-only test. The first command returned data.content: "Dummy PDF file\n\n"; the second saved a one-page PDF. It illustrates two distinct operations, not a promise that every PDF extracts successfully.
An image or video may instead appear as an asset in a saved result. Inspect its kind, variants and source, then pass the returned asset ID with the result file:
That asset ID came from one September 2026 Instagram result and is not reusable for another result. The test downloaded and verified JPEG bytes; its MP4 asset was only a descriptor, so video-byte retrieval was not established. For multiple returned assets, --all-assets --output-dir DIRECTORY can save a batch; inspect each file and the command’s receipt before saying the originals were kept. Signed media URLs can expire. The files remain on the caller’s machine; a download does not register an Almanac source or attach a citation to saved knowledge. See sources and citations when a finding belongs in the wiki.