DownThemAll is another one on my list of must-have Firefox extensions. With DownThemAll you can easily download all images or links on a web page, or a customized subset of them.
- First, grab a copy of DownThemAll and restart Firefox.
- In this first example I’m going to download all of the links from a page at once. Here’s how I do it.
- First I open the web page containing the links.
- Then I Right-Click anywhere in the page and select DownThemAll.
- Now I’m presented with the main DownThemAll window. Note the section that says Save Files In. I chose to save the files I’m downloading in a temporary directory within my home directory, (/home/kmurray/temp)
- Next, I unchecked the Reg Exp checkbox at the bottom right. All of the links I want to download end in either .sis or .sisx. Keeping this in mind, I entered *.sis* under Fast Filtering. This caused all of the .sis and .sisx links/files to be automatically selected by DownThemAll. This is a lot faster than manually selecting each and every link one by one in the top pane of the DownThemAll window.
- Click Start and up comes the DownThemAll status window showing my files being downloaded.
- A quick look in /home/kmurray/temp shows them all there.
- That wasn’t too bad, but what if I wanted to only download images from a web page? In this example I’m going to download all of the images from the Googles main Picasa page at http://picasa.google.com
- This time I clicked on the Pictures and Embedded tab at the top. I removed *.sis* from Fast Filtering and checked the checkbox next to Images. Note that all images were automatically selected in the top pane of the window.
- Then I clicked Start and watched DownThemAll do its magic.
- A quick look in /home/kmurray/temp and there they are.
- In these examples I used fairly small files. DownThemAll does not limit the size of the files you can download. If you happen upon a web page containing a substantial number of large images, you can download them all with DownThemAll.
