Download Star

Download all items in a webpage that match a pattern
What is Download Star?
"Download Star" is a Firefox Add-on designed to download all files in a webpage that match a specific filter. It integrates seamlessly with the native downloads manager and allows limiting the number of concurrent downloads. It is a replacement to DownThemAll filtering, but without its download manager. Designed with three scraping choices: linked images/media, embedded images/media, and plaintext links. Recent version includes new popup window.
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Add-on stats

By: liebs
Users: 5,193 ▲ 15
Rating: 4.03 (198)
Version: 2.0.5 (Last updated: 2020-01-21)
Creation date: 2017-06-23
Weekly download count: 57
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • downloads
  • storage
Size: 1.53M
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

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A simple addon to replace DownThemAll filtering but without the download manager.

Specify a filter to download matching files. Files are added to the native download manager. The number of concurrent downloads can be limited in the addon options.

Choose which items are scraped using the 3 buttons on the bottom left: linked images and media, embedded images and media, and plaintext links.

New in 2.0.4! There is now an option in the add-on options to open in a popup window instead of the default browser action popup.

Requried Permissions:

  • Download files and read and modify...: This one should be obvious.
Optional Permissions:
  • Access your data for all websites: Required to scrape links and images from other tabs besides the active tab (i.e.: for the Scrape All Tabs button,) or from cross-origin iframes.
Note: The downloads API in web extensions is lacking in many features. Currently, you can only place downloads inside of Firefox's default downloads folder. Files served using Content-Disposition header to provide a filename cannot be handled properly. Skip existing files is based on remembering downloaded URLs, since there is no API to test for existence of a file.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Simple and suitable UI
  • Can handle various file types including images and videos
  • Effective at detecting links including JS built links
  • Clean and fast performance
  • Allows for customization with naming masks
Cons
  • Needs serious updates to improve performance on modern websites
  • Struggles with file detection on many pages
  • Overcomplicated interface with lack of documentation
  • Certain inputs prevent downloads from starting
  • Not as intuitive as other extensions
Most mentioned
  • Interface issues
  • Need for improvements and updates
  • Struggles with file detection
  • Customizable naming masks
  • Fast and clean performance
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Download Star requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Download Star has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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