GetemAll! - Fork of DownthemAll!

[Moonchild]

Tantrums and attacks are in your head.

Have you read your own posts in this thread?

Is it that hard to give direct answer to concrete question?

The answer is: you can use RealityRipple's version if it has what you want, instead of somehow demanding that moonbat incorporate what you like in his release.

you need to understand how open source projects and forks work

[moonbat]

and I got lecture about days long gone in response

It wasn't a lecture, dipshit. Take your entitled rude attitude and shove it up your ass. I've been uncharacteristically polite so far, people like you only understand language like this.

[vchuubacabra]

Did you mistook your attitude with mine? I didn't resort to obscene lexicon.

[vchuubacabra]

Moonchild, does technical documentation offend you too, as it is pretty straightforward?

[Moonchild]

does technical documentation offend you too

So you're saying your posts are 'technical documentation" now? Maybe you've lost a few things in translation.

I didn't resort to obscene lexicon.

One can be rude and offensive while using formal language.

But, since it seems clear to me that nothing short of getting what you want will satisfy, I'm going to bow out of this one. I have much more important things to do than endure this.

[vchuubacabra]

But, since it seems clear to me that nothing short of getting what you want will satisfy, I'm going to bow out of this one. I have much more important things to do than endure this.

Yes, good luck with your tasks.
For me as an end-user this extension looks like a single link on main download page, with a single link leading to a single thread of technical support, so I didn't expect it to be a plethora, a constellation of different variants discussed in the same place at once.

Code wisely, oh wise ignorant one, as without knowledge you will have hard time doing it.
And hope that if anyone would have wronged you, the main difference wouldn't be the fact of them being alive and you being dead, or them still be clever and you dumb for some reason, or them being free and you were not, as in this case not being like the one who wronged you would hardly count as revenge.
And linux is very useful in devices which make life simpler but can't run some monstrousity like Windows.
If anything, I'm just questioning your selection of quotes for signature, not trying to offend you.
Cheers.

[mestir999]

Hello, thank you for this wonderful extension we hope that Mr Moonbat will have the generosity to simplify and speed up the process of downloading the detected video, because to be able to download the video, ywe have to click on a lot of things and many parameters and things and we may get lost a bit and it can be long and tiring.... thank you very much !

[moonbat]

Hello, thank you for this wonderful extension

Just to clarify, I'm not the original author of this extension
In April 2019, it was decided to drop support for legacy Firefox extensions and going forward one would have to explicitly target extensions for Pale Moon. In response to that I forked this extension since the original (DownThemAll) was one of the most popular FF extensions during its time. Later the decision was reversed and now one can install legacy FF extensions as before (which remain unsupported).

I'd say the one needing more credit here is RealityRipple - he has made actual enhancements to the extension that I've integrated. Otherwise this extension is about 99% similar to the original DtA (the XUL version, that is).

[mestir999]

Thank you for all these interesting clarifications Mr Moonbat and yes of course we thank the developers of these extensions and above all we thank you because you have the merit of overseeing the development and the compatibility of all these magnificent extensions with Pale Moon, thank you !

[Moonchild]

I stumbled upon a small issue:

Getemall creates an about: page entry in the browser (about:downthemall) but when you try to go there it does nothing and instead throws some errors:

Timestamp: 14/09/2023 14:55:40
Error: Get'emAll! (error) - failed to create about channel [Exception: Cannot build about:downthemall, version module not ready]
newChannel() @ chrome://dta-modules/content/main.js:39
Source File: chrome://dta-modules/content/main.js
Line: 39
Timestamp: 14/09/2023 14:55:40
Error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Cannot build about:downthemall, version module not ready
Source File: chrome://dta-modules/content/main.js
Line: 39

[moonbat]

Wow, never seen this
Sounds like overkill for a simple about dialog.

[RealityRipple]

Deleted all that from my fork 2 years ago. Unfortunately, the deletion was part of my renaming overhaul and is a bit messy to find the right bits of:

https://github.com/RealityRipple/DownItAll/commit/3b649903e3b959b1bfbf2a38f2ff234b22039aff

Code: Select all

modules/loaders/integration.js L952-964, L1106
modules/main.js                L21-75, L210-212, L468-501, L602
modules/support/iconcheat.js   L86
modules/support/mediator.js    L10, L165-170, L192
modules/version.js             L10, L26

[__NM64__]

I've just discovered what may or may not be a bug.

If you queue up a bunch of downloads but have it set to only a single concurrent download, despite it indeed downloading just one at a time, the "modified" timestamp metadata in the saved file will match when the file was added to the queue rather than when it actually began downloading.

This is most obvious if you have Get'emAll! capped to a mere 10KB/s, in which case you can have literally minutes between when individual downloads start.

It may at least be worth mentioning that, at least over in "Linux land" on the likes of the EXT4 filesystem, I can see from the "accessed" timestamp metadata the actual time when the file was downloaded.

[RealityRipple]

I haven't checked, but I think it uses whatever date the initial HTTP request's "Date" response header sends. If the server sends "now" instead of the file's last modified date, the outcome you're seeing is what occurs.

[__NM64__]

Turns out it's not only not a defect, but it's a configurable feature (how I didn't notice this I have no idea—I swear I looked in the preferences...):

preferences.png

Now the question is if there's some way to have a one or two second pause between downloads without just setting the speed limit to a mere 10KB/s, because it turns out Linux, or at least the EXT4 file system, has "modified" file metadata timestamps that don't record precision more than individual seconds.

This means that, if you first download files 2.png 3.png and 1.png in that order one at a time but all within a single second, then sorting by modified will actually result in the files being sorted as 1.png 2.png 3.png or vice-versa.

[RealityRipple]

Nope, and using concurrent downloads at all would totally mess that up anyway. I suggest you "touch" the files manually after download.

[__NM64__]

Nope, and using concurrent downloads at all would totally mess that up anyway. I suggest you "touch" the files manually after download.

Honestly it's more convenient to just leave it at 10KB/s and leave it run on its own since I'm not just dealing with a handful of files (though admittedly I didn't ever mention that fact).

In general, when it's just a few files, I usually download the old-fashioned way rather than using Get'emAll

[Moonchild]

Not sure why you need every file to have unique time stamps without duplicates anyway

[__NM64__]

Not sure why you need every file to have unique time stamps without duplicates anyway

Sorting. If I'm downloading 1 by 1 individually, it's because I'm trying to have the files retain their original order that they were in on the originating server. And when the timestamp is the same between multiple files, they end up getting sorted alphabetically even when at least Nemo or Thunar are set to sort by date.

This is a problem for me because sometimes the file names do not match the order that the files were originally listed in, hence my example of downloading "2.png" "3.png" and then "1.png" all within the same second can result in an order of "1.png" "2.png" and "3.png" even when sorted by date.

[RealityRipple]

I hate to be that guy, but I think the solution is to format your partition as Ext4.