What DownThemAll Does
When you click on this icon on the far right menu bar of Firefox, it opens a popup with all the downloads (according to the filter you are using in DownThemAll. See below for setting up a theWord filter) in the page with a checkbox before each one, to decide whether you want to download it or not. By default, all are checks. For example, today I loaded this page in my browser, https://twmodules.com/aa-al-authors/, and this is an image of the first 20 or so lines.
Now, when you install the Firefox add-in, you should see an icon on the top right of your browser which is like a green arrow with an orange tip pointing down right. See image.
This add-in allows you to see, select, deselect, etc. everything downloadable on a web page (the option DownThemAll!), and once you have everything working like how you like it and understand it, then you can fly. “OneClick!” will do everything automatically, download all the eSword modules on the page with one click. The third and fourth options allow the same, but not just with the active tab, but with every tab open in your browser. Be careful how you use it because depending on how many pages in tabs are open and how many downloads are on those pages, you could be downloads gigabytes of files for a while, depending on your Internet speed.
But we are not finished setting this up yet. Let’s go back to the preferences menu, Click on the Green arrow, and bottom option, “Preferences”. When the preferences opens, choose filters.
Changing/Adding Filter Masks
Now click on the Filters Tab at the top. Under Filters add a new filtereSword
/.(?:tmstv)$/i Go to a page on the web (in Firefox browser) where there are a lot of downloads you want, and click on the down right green with orange arrow icon (DownThemAll on the Menu). This should pop up. Note that if you have various tabs (with downloads across various tabs) the second tier of options is what you want to grab all at once. The top two are what I will be focusing on. The “DownThemAll” menu option is what you want to use first until you get used to this, and then maybe the “OneClick!” (which automates downloading everything at one swipe, no hassles, fast and great!) A lot of websites make you jump through hoops in order to get a single file, i.e. they have a page with a list of modules, you have to register and login to download anything, then you click on the download link which takes you to another page or popup making you promise not to upload their public domain files to any other website. (Think about that a minute. A public domain work means that anybody can do anything they want with it. That is what public domain means. How can they get away with making you promise what is against the law? The law contradicts what they are making you agree to, which is wrong.) Then they finally get you to the actual, real download link. In that kind of website, you will never download more than one file at a time. I am redesigning my website to make it very fast and easy to download my files. You can come download almost everything I have very quickly (I separate these modules by authors, because the pages would load slowly after so many download links, and Google et al. marks my website as spam with so many links anyway.) So if you click the first icon, you should see something like this.
Note: If you didn’t change the filters option, adding the eSword DownThemAll filter mask as I state above, these probably won’t show up like the above image. See above changing or adding the filter options.
Note: If you don’t see the pink highlighted lines, you will need to scroll down in that window to find them. Every link in the top of the page has a download link page first, then the good stuff further below.
So this bunch of eSword downloads (noting that the key phrase that DownThemAll finds for this filter is “tmstv”) all are listed and checked for downloading. At this point, you can manually scan what you don’t want and uncheck it. Also, not the bottom line “Subfolder“, and this will bypass your Windows download folder to download them to any folder on your computer you want, and you can make some other folder as where it is copying things to, like say your theWord module folder.
I would suggest that you remove modules that you don’t like or don’t think you will use by compressing them into a zip file and storing them on an external drive or a DVD.
Moreover, note that each download has the number of times it has been downloaded. While I am constantly uploading new modules , soa new module might not have been downloaded very much, but in general, what a lot of people download might be worthwhile for you to look at.
DON’T DOWNLOAD A WHOLE PAGE OF 50 or 100 DOWNLOADS ONE BY ONE. DOWNTHEMALL IS EXTREMELY BETTER, FASTER, AND SAVES YOU TIME.
I would recommend that you download a page’s downloads to maybe a temporary file (like a subfolder in Windows “Download” folder, like “eSword”) and save that in the DownThemAll options. Come back to the same page in a month and redownload everything again. There is a DownThemAll option to rename or delete when the download already exists, chose delete.