Comments on: Automatically download sequentially designated files

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:53:54 +0000

The Firefox DownThemAll extension can do this. It will use FF’s cookies (and session cookies!) and existing logins.

Tools->DownThemAll->dTa! Manager->Add URL(s) button.

Examples it gives:
http://blah/mygallery[A-C]/photo[001-100 step:2].jpg

However, dTa can suffer from very long delays (taking Firefox with it) when you tell it to get thousands of files – I think it rewrites its XML config file a lot.

By: Cael

Cael — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:26:28 +0000

Downthemall extension for Firefox works on that website.

By: Tobey

Tobey — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:34:49 +0000

Oh just a note that the files do not neccessarily be destignated with numbers in a sequence because File Downloader automaticly skips non-existing files. Therefore you can get for example only files #47 & #13 with a range set to 13,1,47.

@Roman ShaRP: Yea, I guess some download managers are able to handle such situations but none of those I use was able to do it :)
Robotget seems to be a very useful GUI for this command-line script, thanks for sharing.

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:21:15 +0000

I had 2 such tools – 1st is mass download function in “Download Master” downloader, and there where simple “Robotget” utility with graphical interface.