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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By: liebs

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Users: 5,159 ▼ -58

Rating: 4.02 (197)

Version: 2.0.5 (Last updated: 2020-01-21)

Creation date: 2017-06-23

Weekly download count: 77

Firefox on Android: No

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
downloads
storage

Size: 1.53M

Email: ma*****@liebs.ca

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1075

Other rankings

#88 in Download Management

#219 in Other extensions

#14 in scraping keyword 2

#18 in download keyword 57

#31 in item keyword 23 ▲ 1

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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.

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