Auto Download PDF report in desktop

Hi,
i have a requirement to autosave a standard PDF report every week to a defined path in the desktop of my system.
How can we do it in APEX ? i know to manually run the application to print and save the PDF to desktop.
But Since it is more than 10 PDF reports and it has to be done frequently ; there is a need to do this automatically.
I would appreciate any help.

Would this be useful to you?
Customizing Interactive Reports
or apex_util.download_print_document?
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