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Faster alternative to Wget on Windows
Possibly consider using aria2 instead.
It comes with a bunch of features that make it superior to wget for this type of usage, including:
Support for running multiple downloads in parallel, ...
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Open source download manager for YouTube, Vimeo, etc
With the exception of the pop-up integration I would suggest taking a look at youtube-dl.
Small
Open Source & Gratis
Supports downloading from 100s of sites, including youtube, vimeo.
Allows ...
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Web downloader for a large number of files (~100,000)
wget -c -i yourfile.txt should work. Run it once to download everything from yourfile.txt, which should be a text file with each url seperated by a new line, and run it again to make sure everything ...
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Faster alternative to Wget on Windows
Because the requests are independent, you can divide the script into smaller scripts that will execute concurrently. Making four approximately equal scripts will likely run in 1/4 the current time. As ...
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Download manager that automatically continues "failed" downloads
Two of the most commonly used downloader for http urls on Unix systems are wget and curl. Of these curl has apparently been part of OS X in the past, and is presumably installable on any version. It ...
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Download multiple images at once (with ID from 1 to x in the URL)
Good old wget was pretty much made for this. (curl works, too.)
You just need to use a shell loop to invoke wget for each image. In Bash:
for N in {1..5} ; do wget "http://example.com/path?query&...
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YouTube downloader for Windows
Try youtube-dlp - a fork of youtube-dl with additional features and fixes.
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Web downloader for a large number of files (~100,000)
I used JDownloader in the past. Can also check if the file is still online and can interact with the clipboard (if you copy a link, it automaticly recognizes it without pasting)
And it's free :-)
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Download Router extension for Firefox web browser
You can safely dump Chrome... allow me to introduce you to Firefox's Save In... extension.
The summary on AMO is well written:
Adds a context menu to save media {image, video, audio, link, ...
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Faster alternative to Wget on Windows
It looks like you're starting a new instance of wget for each download. I usually store all of the URLs in a text file (one URL per line) and use wget's -i (input file) flag.
Something like:
wget --no-...
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Is there a way to download all my Liked / Favorited videos from TikTok?
The python YouTube-DL utility despite the name can actually be used on 100s of sites including TikTok and supports the use of usernames & passwords.
It works on Windows & Mac and many others ...
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Software to download all images from an entire website
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
For mirroring only images you need to set scan rules properly.
Limit external depth download and ensure that you ...
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Whole website downloader
I don't know if it is what you are looking for but here is a great software you should look at: HTTrack Website Copier. I don't use it a lot but from what I saw up to date it is working great, ...
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Free alternative to SubtitlesApp for Windows
Sublight is a powerful free software to manage subtitles that comes with a modern interface and ribbon menu. Not only it can search and download subtitles from multiple sources, Sublight can also edit,...
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Download the index.html files from a large list of URLs
Just install python, if you are on windows - no need on OS-X or most Linux installs, then open a terminal and type pip install requests to get the requests library on some platforms you will need to ...
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Download the index.html files from a large list of URLs
wget command can be used for this
wget --input-file=list.txt
this will store results in index.html, index.html.1, index.html.2 files. If you want to store results separately (e.g. create folder for ...
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Flashgot alternative for Firefox quantum
I downloaded this
https://slgobinath.github.io/uget-chrome-wrapper/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slgobinath/uget-chrome-wrapper/master/build/linux/install_uget_chrome_wrapper.sh
sudo sh ...
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Faster alternative to Wget on Windows
You can use wget but to put it in background like this:
wget -O 10001.htm --background https://www.wowhead.com/item=10001
wget -O 10002.htm --background https://www.wowhead.com/item=10002
...
This ...
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YouTube downloader for Windows
JDownloader (Freeware)
JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause ...
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Saving Borrowed Books From OpenLibrary
Neither an older version of FF, nor current versions of Chrome or IDM seemed to see the pages as images that could be saved. I tried some of the "cache viewer" utilities, such as those from ...
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Chrome extension to download videos?
Not a chrome extension but a good work around is the python library/utility youtube-dl - you need to have installed python first but then you can install it with pip install youtube_dl if you are on ...
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Free download manager for Windows 8
Which browser are you using?
Free Download Manager can do what you want by it may require installing a browser extension / plugin.
If you are using Chrome you can download the plugin from:
https://...
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Software to download FC2 videos on Linux
If you want a command-line tool, youtube-dl can handle FC2 links.
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/fc2.py
Use it like this:
youtube-dl http://video.fc2.com/en/...
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Software to download FC2 videos on Linux
You can use JDownloader:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing JDownloader)
standalone
works with Windows/Linux/Mac
can download FC2 videos
tons of other features
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Software to download FC2 videos on Linux
Flashgot can download FC2 videos.
Just install Flashgot go to the FC2 webpage, start playing, press Flashgot Media (1) and enter a filename and folder.
Thanks Firelord (and Izzy) for the tips, I had ...
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Which software can download YouTube videos in MKV format at 360p?
Thanks @NicolasRaoul for suggesting Youtube-Dl to me. I went ahead and after many hit & trials and attempts to make something out of the documentation, I came up with this command as the solution ...
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Alternatives to Download Helper?
i had the same thoughts quite a while ago...
i "switched" to FlashGot because i used it anyway from time to time for mass downloading and integration with my external download manager:
it is not ...
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