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DownThemAll!

Free and open source download manager extension

Field	Value
name	DownThemAll!
logo	Downthemall logo.png
screenshot	DownloadThemAll!.png
screenshot size	300px
caption	DownThemAll! screenshot
developer	Federico Parodi, Stefano Verna, Nils Maier
released
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview version
latest preview date
programming language	JavaScript, WebExtensions
operating system	N/A
platform	Chrome, Firefox, Opera
language count	17
language footnote
genre	Download manager
license	GPL-2.0-only
website

DownThemAll! (DTA) is a free and open source download manager browser extension. DTA can download all or some linked files, images, or embedded objects associated with a web page. It can pause, resume, or restart downloads.

Features

As with any download manager, the main feature of older versions of DTA is parallel or multithreaded downloading. This allows the user to download the file in pieces, then combine the pieces after a completed download. This increases the download speed when connected to a slow server. It has Metalink support, which allows multiple URLs for each file to be used, along with checksums and other information about the content. Multithreaded downloading is no longer possible with the transition to the WebExtension version. Other features no longer supported in the WebExtension version are checksum/hash verification, metalinks, and mirror sources.

When extracting links from a page, the user may choose to download only specific files (for example: all PDFs) using wildcard or regular expression inclusive filters.

Versions

All versions of DownThemAll! below 4.0 are incompatible with Firefox 57 or above (Quantum). Version 4.0 transitioned the codebase from XUL/XPCOM to WebExtensions (HTML/CSS/JS/WASM). The first 4.0 beta version was released August 21, 2019. On September 1, 2019, DownThemAll! 4.0 was released, supporting Firefox Quantum.

On September 8, 2019, DownThemAll! 4.0.9 was released for Chrome and Opera add-ons. The Chrome add-on can also be used for other Chromium-based browsers, e.g. Microsoft Edge, Brave and Vivaldi.

DownThemAll! was reviewed by Lifehacker, Wired, Spiegel Online, Tucows.

References

"all.json". DownThemAll.
(2013-06-12). "LICENSE". DownThemAll.
"Features".
(2016-11-06). "DownThemAll 3.0.8 - Internet Tools - Downloads".
Larkin, Erik. (2011-08-03). "DownThemAll".
Rosenblatt, Seth. (2011-01-19). "DownThemAll".
Cirneala, Sorin. "DownThemAll!".
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(August 20, 2019). "Progress?".
(August 21, 2019). "DownThemAll! 4.0.1 Beta 1 – The WebExtensioning".
(September 1, 2019). "DownThemAll! 4 – The WebExtension".
"Chrome support · Issue #35 · downthemall/downthemall · GitHub".
"Opera support · Issue #73 · downthemall/downthemall · GitHub".
Trapani, Gina. (28 February 2007). "Geek to Live: Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll". [[Lifehacker]].
"Gallery: Best Firefox Add-Ons: DownThemAll!".
(26 July 2006). "DownThemAll!: Runter mit den Klamotten!". Spiegel Online GmbH.
Running, Jordan. "Article - How to Download Many Files From a Web Page at Once".

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