Reviews for DownThemAll!
DownThemAll! by Nils Maier
Review by Erik
Rated 5 out of 5
by Erik, 3 years agoWonderful tool. I've been using it only for a few days, and it has already saved me hours in prepping for various needs.
I like it so much that I just happily made a donation. When I came back here to write my review, I was surprised to see any reviews with one or two stars. Maybe they're due to older problems that were already fixed when I started using this just recently?
General notes (pros and cons):
--Let's say you need to download all of the .jpg files linked from a page that includes thumbnails: you will get the core files, but you'll also get the thumbnails from the source page. Unless whoever created the page named files in a way that makes it easy to exclude the thumbs. I personally don't see this as a major issue, since it just requires a bit of easy cleanup. But! If the developers could find a way to avoid this, that would be awesome.
--On that note, in terms of filtering how files might be named on any given website, I think the filtering tool in DTA is great, and super intuitive.
--I was a little confused by the reviews that said you can't choose where to save files. The caveat is that you need to identify a subfolder within your Downloads folder (I'm using it in Firefox on Windows), but that has been working perfectly for me (see the *asterisked note below). Sure, it would be nice to choose a folder location anywhere, but now that I think of it, *maybe* that means that the tool doesn't allow itself access to your general folders? I'm obviously speculating, but this feels really good to me vis-a-vis general information privacy.
--At the moment, I don't need to download video files anywhere, but out of curiosity, I tried using it to capture a video file from a site that masks the core file extensions. It didn't work. Firstly, that's fine. This tool makes no promises in that regard. But if you need to get an .mp4 from a site that doesn't make it obvious that it's an .mp4, you'll need another tool.
--------MEANING: If you're trying to download a video from a site that protects the content (likely for copyright reasons), even if you look at the source code on the page, they're not going to have something as simple as "video.mp4" embedded there. So I guess what I'm trying to say is: I know there are a lot of cats out there who want to use something like this to download whatever they want, but don't give the extension a bad review because it doesn't provide a loophole around international copyright law. Rate it on its merit. Cats on a cracker.
*asterisked note: Don't include a slash at the beginning of the filepath for your downloads sub-folder(s). For example, if you want to save to [Downloads]\subfolder\subsubfolder , just enter subfolder\subsubfolder in the "Subfolder" field when the DTA window pops up.
I like it so much that I just happily made a donation. When I came back here to write my review, I was surprised to see any reviews with one or two stars. Maybe they're due to older problems that were already fixed when I started using this just recently?
General notes (pros and cons):
--Let's say you need to download all of the .jpg files linked from a page that includes thumbnails: you will get the core files, but you'll also get the thumbnails from the source page. Unless whoever created the page named files in a way that makes it easy to exclude the thumbs. I personally don't see this as a major issue, since it just requires a bit of easy cleanup. But! If the developers could find a way to avoid this, that would be awesome.
--On that note, in terms of filtering how files might be named on any given website, I think the filtering tool in DTA is great, and super intuitive.
--I was a little confused by the reviews that said you can't choose where to save files. The caveat is that you need to identify a subfolder within your Downloads folder (I'm using it in Firefox on Windows), but that has been working perfectly for me (see the *asterisked note below). Sure, it would be nice to choose a folder location anywhere, but now that I think of it, *maybe* that means that the tool doesn't allow itself access to your general folders? I'm obviously speculating, but this feels really good to me vis-a-vis general information privacy.
--At the moment, I don't need to download video files anywhere, but out of curiosity, I tried using it to capture a video file from a site that masks the core file extensions. It didn't work. Firstly, that's fine. This tool makes no promises in that regard. But if you need to get an .mp4 from a site that doesn't make it obvious that it's an .mp4, you'll need another tool.
--------MEANING: If you're trying to download a video from a site that protects the content (likely for copyright reasons), even if you look at the source code on the page, they're not going to have something as simple as "video.mp4" embedded there. So I guess what I'm trying to say is: I know there are a lot of cats out there who want to use something like this to download whatever they want, but don't give the extension a bad review because it doesn't provide a loophole around international copyright law. Rate it on its merit. Cats on a cracker.
*asterisked note: Don't include a slash at the beginning of the filepath for your downloads sub-folder(s). For example, if you want to save to [Downloads]\subfolder\subsubfolder , just enter subfolder\subsubfolder in the "Subfolder" field when the DTA window pops up.
983 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17784486, 4 days agoブラウザ再起動させると完了済みのタスクを再開する。ブラウザ再起動前にマネージャー画面を空白にしても同じように謎のダウンロードを始める。
- Rated 5 out of 5by memusi, 8 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by MHKAZE, 18 days agoVersion 4.14.2 : Add on installation aborted because it appears to be corrupt
Browser Version : firefox esr115.30.0 - Rated 5 out of 5by toasterovenly, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mjtech, 20 days agoReading the 1-star reviews I think many people are misunderstanding the purpose of this extension. It is designed to provide a way to download multiple files of those which a website owner has provided for download. It is not designed to detect and download things like YouTube videos which the website owner has not enabled for download. If you can't click to download it using normal browser functions (e.g. click or right-click), you can't download it using DTA. That is not what it was made for. There are others that enable that. With that in mind, this extension is very useful to make downloading multiple downloadable files very easy to do. I especially like the download selection feature.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bernard, 20 days agobrilliant but...
I am using the 1-Click function, and downloading all files. I want the *.zip fils and to ignore *.php, *.html etc, is this possible? - Rated 5 out of 5by Mabba, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leviii, a month ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by pdx, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18541484, a month agoThis is exactly the tool I've been needing for ages. Works a charm the filter for hyperlink text (not just the link itself) is perfect. I was able to download a huge backlog of images I had from a website starting with P (wait no, not that one)
As a note, this app won't give you the ability to download anything you couldn't normally. A lot of 1 star reviews are complaining that it doesn't let you download videos on various sites like YT. That isn't what this app is made for. - Rated 1 out of 5by edenflare, 2 months agoDoesn't work and is not user friendly this might of worked a long time ago but needs updating
- Rated 4 out of 5by Knag, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 2 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by CoconutMoon, 3 months agoGreat addon for downloading images and small portable programs from websites. I use it all the time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by dimm, 3 months agoКолись був найкращий додаток. А тепер зовсім даремний. Не знаходить посилання на відео зовсім. Шукайте самі!
- Rated 5 out of 5by alexandel, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DjDiabolik, 4 months agoUseless.. it's not download video from youtube or other similar video. Totally useless. Disabled from now.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Bullfinch, 4 months ago
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