Reviews for Download Links
Download Links by Prabhu
19 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18451997, 9 months agogood, but unfortunatelly cant change folder (destination) by manual (your own) or automatically by using url path like ("https://youtu.be/DwH_NboclFA" auto create folder to : "DwH_NboclFA")
- Rated 4 out of 5by Stirling Westrup, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lance, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by spanky, 3 years agoOverall great work, the interface is very nice. After a little finagling it works well and does what it supposed to do, but with a couple of minor issues.
The "name" and "ext" scripts in the file renaming could use a couple of tweaks. It doesn't recognize the extension correctly when saving if there is a period within the file name. It just assumes everything to the right of the first period is the extension, and cuts off/truncates the actual extension at the next period. I just used it on a large collection Band-In-A-Box song files (https://www.bensax.nl/biab) that had many such files. I ended up just creating the desired sub-folder and setting it as default temporarily instead of using the file renaming function to avoid having it scramble the file names and extensions.
I found also that it fails to download selected files that contain non-English characters (ex: TÖRNFÅGL.MGU). In the link above it skipped all such files and several others, almost all of the others contained punctuation of some sort, ~ ' !, etc. They all downloaded fine when I went back through the Firefox download history and clicked the retry button. Just something to check into.
Would also be nice if the custom file extensions would support wildcard characters "?" and/or "*". The link noted above has 7k+ similar files that use about 35-40 similar but different extensions. I realize this is not a typical scenario, but simply adding "MG?" vs. adding each extension individually would have been very handy. - Rated 4 out of 5by kenanunkesti, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by jd., 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15100253, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by languidcorpse, 6 years agoReally great add-on once I can download by image size (| x.x | Feature to filter by image size) it will be worthy of 5 stars ;)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14487705, 6 years agoWould be better if Excel files could be included in the file types along with pdf, DOC etc...
A response to your reply ... MY BAD .. a subtle user issue.. and program is fine.
I would make it 4.5 stars now.
=== my perceived problem ... but not a problem at all.
I did go to Preferences/Extensions/Custom then selected Media dropdown , chose "Others" and added XLSX . "XLSX" shows up as black in a little box and appears along with all the preset list in the Active Extensions page, but it did not show up anywhere after that to use it/select it.
MY BAD! The problem was that I was making the changes/selections while on a website that was NOT the one with XLSX files. When I added the desired extension on the site with files then "XLSX" came up ...... along with all the others.Developer response
posted 6 years agoNoted. But you can add that as a "custom extension" in Preferences! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13433377, 6 years agoI want to congratulate the developer because this extension is highly efficient.
This extension gives you a quick and natural filter for downloads according to the file type.
But, you can not see the name of the files to be downloaded. To see the name of the files to download is useful when downloading PDF files because it allows you selecting by name for the ongoing download. I wish that this feature is available to extract all the potential to this extension.
I join the request for a better interface for downloading to an individual folder.
Congratulations on your extension!Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. To view name of the file, just click on the button "Downloading in" in 'Verify files selected for download'. Its actually a toggle button. - Rated 4 out of 5by mari, 6 years agoI've seen you answered another review that said: "This is a great extension but it must include an option to select one folder to store all the selected links and not need to save file by file." I added Downloadlinks to firefox today. Left 'Do not open file location chooser...' checked, and in my firefox preferences I have 'Always ask where to save files'. But it didn't ask and saved on the default folder.
Great extension, simple and to the point. Thanks! But this download folder thing is the only thing missing.
p.s.: I think you should add an 'About' to the configurations.
Edit: sorry, I couldn't find a way to reply to your reply =) So I'm posting it in my original review. You answered:
"If 'Do not open file location' in unchecked, then the file chooser dialog *may* show up. It's *may* because that setting depends on Firefox setting 'Always ask where to save files'."
And, as I said on my first review: "in my firefox preferences I have 'Always ask where to save files'. But it didn't ask and saved on the default folder. " So, it is not working, either by the extension or because of my browser (plus exotic OS, combination),
I did not ask for the feature, to save only the links, but that sounds nice =) I suggested an 'About' somewher,e because there is nowhere in the extension that you say the name of it: ''Downloadlinks'' (not even in the window title), but that is just me digressing. Thanks again, for your answer.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for reviewing!
Feature to save only links and not the real files? sounds good. I will add this to backlog.
Clarification about file chooser dialog:
If 'Do not open file location' is checked in Download-links, then no file chooser dialog will show-up at the time of download and all downloads will go to the default download folder that is set in Firefox Preferences. However, you can set relative folders in default download folder by specifying paths that is based on of tags. It is in Download-links->Preferences->Save Options. By that way you can organise files by date, filename and even by website name.
If 'Do not open file location' in unchecked, then the file chooser dialog *may* show up. It's *may* because that setting depends on Firefox setting 'Always ask where to save files'. If the Firefox setting is set, then the file chooser will be prompt for every download (not a good experience). If FF setting is not set, it would go to a default download folder.
Note: Firefox does not allow addon's to modify the default download folder. Hence the above behaviour for saving files. - Rated 4 out of 5by Jorge L, 7 years agoIt's a great plug-in!!
By the way, Could you add a maximum number of downloads at the same time?
If I'm downloading 50 files, I think that doing the job by 5 files at the same time as maximum is better to not be banned by the server.
Anyway, congratulations for this Add-onDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoThanks and your suggestion is already in the TODO list. Will try to get that done in next release. - Rated 4 out of 5by Benico, 7 years agoThanks for your effort ! I have the same comment as other users: I don't want to specify the location for each individual file. And it always defaults to the same (previously used) download location.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoIn release 4.0 you can manage download location by means of rename tags. It's a powerful feature and allows customisation of directory names and file names. - Rated 4 out of 5by AdCimo, 7 years agoSolves the constraint to download multiple files from links/content of a web page in one go. Love it and very useful.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Akerbeltz, 7 years agoFinally a working replacement for DownloadThemAll, many thanks! The only feature I miss is being able to specify a download location, it defaults to Downloads but that's really messy at times if the files being downloaded don't have a clean name pattern (like sometimes they'll start with YYYY_MM_DD_NAME, sometimes it's YYYY_NAME_MM or NAME_YYYY_MM etc) and then they end up all over the Downloads folder, so it would be much better to be able to specify a specific folder.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review and feedback.
Download location configuration would be available in the next release which is due shortly. - Rated 4 out of 5by ArsenioLupin, 7 years agoMuy buena, permite descargar otros tipos de archivos que no sean solo los que tiene registrados. Le faltaría poder indicar donde descargar todos los archivos juntos (y no uno por uno) y además que guarde el listado de extensiones agregadas.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14020589, 7 years agoNecessita uma opção para "somente copiar os links para o clipboard ou um arquivo txt" para download futuro.
Outra opção seria não mostrar os links não desejados, como por exemplo: seu eu escolhi somente os tipos .rar, então, não deve aparecer na lista final os links de outros tipos de arquivos. Mesmo que desmarcados!
veja o plugin / extensão: https://sites.google.com/site/linkgopher/
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It need an option to 'copy the links to the clipboard or a txt file' for future download.
Another option would be not to show the unwanted links, for example: your I chose only .rar types, then the links of other types of files should not appear in the final list. Even if unmarked!
see plugin / extension: https://sites.google.com/site/linkgopher/Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review.
Will provide an option to save and read links from clipboard.
Filtering mechanism will also be altered.
If you have more comments or suggestions, kindly email me.
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Obrigado pela revisão.
Fornecerá uma opção para salvar e ler links da área de transferência.
O mecanismo de filtragem também será alterado.
Se você tiver mais comentários ou sugestões, por favor me envie um email. - Rated 4 out of 5by vincent5, 7 years agoTrés trés simple. fait le taf. accumule les dialog box de download : une par fichier.