Reviews for DownThemAll!
DownThemAll! by Nils Maier
Review by Erik
Rated 5 out of 5
by Erik, 2 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.
910 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Shvoreps, 14 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Korwin, 16 days agoI assume that this extension allows downloading a group of files that differ only in the number in the file name. But I don't understand what values I need to specify in the seven-field form ("Download", "Custom Filename", "Referrer", "Title", "Description", "Mask" and "Subfolder"). The tooltips are not enough for me.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14409887, 17 days agoThis used to mean something back in the days, I am sorry Dev but this is not good.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18675214, 19 days agoNutzlose erweiterung! Das einzige was runtergeladen wird ist die html datei der seiten
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18664650, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aaaa, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by frankshrum, a month agoWhen I need to download a file for any reason Download All always works for me!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Trex, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18637261, a month agoDownThemAll is an amazing resource! It is quite helpful in managing downloads and is easy to use. The sophisticated features simplify organization. adore it
- Rated 5 out of 5by Necroheadbanger, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Puddles, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16414109, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zaxxon, 2 months agoЛучшее дополнение для загрузки, качает даже там, где не справляются некоторые сторонние загрузчики вроде Download master или Free Download manager.
Единственный минус - некоторые видео и гифки DTA сначала быстро скачивает как статичную картинку малого размера, а со второй попытки уже качает нормальное видео полностью. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13924985, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jinx, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ibuprophen, 3 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 3 months ago