Bulk downloader for firefox version 57
Answer My extension is, indeed, not designed to download embedded videos or streaming media but only normal, direct links. The main reason is that these extensions are most exposed to all sorts of legal issues and I don't want my extension to be taken down. Though, in the future, it's possible to add some more support for these types. Question 8. Your extension is not capable to download files from sites X, Y, Z Answer My extension tries always to detect links that are included in the html source of the web pages.
But sometimes this doesn't work well. Many sites don't really like their resources to be mass downloaded because this way the users skip the associated ads. So, in some cases, the URLs are embedded in nonstandard ways or, even worse, the resources are visible on the page as "fake" links, meaning that the real URLs of the resources are generated by the server on the fly, only when the user clicks their name. One solution to this problem is to use an appropriate userscript designed specifically for the site X.
There are some very popular userscript managers around, for example Greasemonkey on Firefox or Tampermonkey on Chrome. If the user knew some javascript he may be able to build for site X a special userscript which facilitates subsequent downloading using Simple Mass Downloader extension. More precisely, my extension can recognize the special attributes data-smd-url and data-smd-name and use them for mass downloading. Of course, the main problem here is to build the helper userscript.
This implies that the knowledgeable user manually analyze the source of the page, and build de appropriate userscript with the aim of embedding into the page via this special attributes the information required for download. Another solution is to find eventually another extension designed specifically for the site X.
There are many extensions of this type. For example one for Google Images downloading, other for SoundCloud etc. There are great chances to find such an extension if the site X is really a very popular one. Question 9. Your extension is not capable to download the full-sized images, but only the thumbnails Answer As for the previous question, it's possible that only the thumbnail links are included in the html source and the full links are obscured using various javascript tricks.
See the previous answer for details and solutions. Question There are too many bugs! You are aware of them? Answer This extension is still in early development, so, unfortunately, bugs are still expected. Also, I tried to add quite a lot of features and this increased complexity means usually more bugs. Hopefully, this situation will be considerably improved as we approach version 1. How are you enjoying Simple mass downloader?
Log in to rate this extension. How are you enjoying Bulk Media Downloader? Log in to rate this extension. Report this add-on for abuse. Report this add-on for abuse If you think this add-on violates Mozilla's add-on policies or has security or privacy issues, please report these issues to Mozilla using this form. Dismiss Send abuse report. Download file. Older versions Version 7. As a result, the user may end up with an audio or video-only file, depending on the chosen variant.
When an audio-only and a video-only file have been downloaded, it is now possible to use the local aggregation tool to merge those two files to a single audio-video media file. Version 7. Works with firefox Video DownloadHelper 7. Updated locales: Russian. When browsing a Facebook timeline or opening a Facebook video post, Video DownloadHelper offers several variants for each detected video. There should be one or two simple-streamed variants companion app is optional and one to many ADP options audio and video streams are transparently downloaded and aggregated locally, this requires the use of the companion app.
In general, the best quality is only available through an ADP option. Changes from 7. Some of those fixes are located in the add-on itself, some had to be made in the companion application the external application that is to be installed along with the extension in order to provide the necessary capabilities removed from Firefox Quantum v As a consequence, Video DownloadHelper 7.
We understand that updating this companion application is a bit tedious if you compare to how smoothly the add-on updates, and we try to keep this requirement as seldom as possible.