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Has anyone found a way to locally save the entire service manual from Toyota TIS ?

4.9K views 24 replies 8 participants last post by  anethema  
#1 ·
It is in a dynamic javascript based page.

I manually went through and saved everything in the wiring diagram portion, but I just don't have it in my to spend days doing that for the service/repair manual.

Has anyone managed to save all these or figure out a method for doing so? I've tried various webpage cloning softwares etc like Httrack, but having 0 luck.
 
#4 ·
The total service manual would be huge, many, many TB of data. Do you have that much storage? Is your download link fast enough to get it all in a few days/weeks/months that would be required?

The latest available online repair manual for the 4Runner (TOYOTA 2016-2019 4Runner Repair Manual RM27F0U - Toyota 4Runner Forum - Largest 4Runner Forum ) is nearly 9000 pages long, 5 years old, and that covers only the mechanical/service, not any wiring diagrams.

And the RAV4 wiring harness repair manual (RAV4 Wiring harness repair manual ) is nearly 500 pages long and 17 years old.
 
#5 ·
Yes I have plenty of storage and download. And even a multi thousand page PDF would only be a few gigabytes at most. That 7000 page 4Runner manual you linked is only 400mb, not even 1 gigabyte never mind several thousand.

I appreciate you trying to help but I’m looking for assistance in mirroring it not looking for reasons not to.
The total service manual would be huge, many, many TB of data. Do you have that much storage? Is your download link fast enough to get it all in a few days/weeks/months that would be required?

The latest available online repair manual for the 4Runner (TOYOTA 2016-2019 4Runner Repair Manual RM27F0U - Toyota 4Runner Forum - Largest 4Runner Forum ) is nearly 9000 pages long, 5 years old, and that covers only the mechanical/service, not any wiring diagrams.

And the RAV4 wiring harness repair manual (RAV4 Wiring harness repair manual ) is nearly 500 pages long and 17 years old.
 
#14 ·
I don't know how he did but it looks very nice.

From his website (translated):
For myself, I wrote a grabber of the electrical diagrams from the TIS and downloaded what was necessary.

For example
I’ve already manually downloaded every single wiring diagram and associated info so that’s done. Working on the main service manual now
 
#17 ·
Here is the 2018-2022 manual:
That doesn’t really make sense since 2018 and 2019 are completely different cars.
None of those is the prime also.
There have been some criminal scams on this forum by people pretending to sell downloads of the 5th gen manual...but actually either fraudster con men or identity theft guys. The moderator banned one poster who had a phony website in Iceland (?) and was posting under two different names from India and Canada I think.
 
#24 · (Edited)
I have been there, scraping Honda is an old techinfo site, one page at a time, with a script I hacked together in Python and Selenium. Took a weekend, lots of coffee, and tweaking delays so it did not get blocked. My advice: if you are close, finish the job and zip the set worth it to have offline access when the site goes down or changes. If you checked the service manual section, sometimes you can batch-print by selecting bigger groups through the "Print Selection" tool (hidden in some models).
 
#25 ·
I have been there scraping Honda is old techinfo site one page at a time with a script I hacked together in Python and Selenium. Took a weekend lots of coffee and tweaking delays so it did not get blocked. My advice: if you are close finish the job and zip the set worth it to have offline access when the site goes down or changes.
Can you share the code ? I did mine by hand over DAYS haha it would be cool to be able to do it for future vehicles.

Edit: Ah I see you said honda, same code wouldnt likely work for toyota.