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Welcome to the SJdownloader user guide. This guide will walk you through the downloader's interface and usage.

Walkthrough

  1. [Installation] (#installation).
  2. [Interface and components] (#interface-and-components).
  3. [Usage specification] (#usage-specification).
  4. [Support] (#support)

Installation

You can install the application in the well known way.
Download the [archive] (https://github.com/swati-jaiswal/SJdownloader/releases/download/v1.0.0/sjdownloader-1.0.0.zip) and extract to C:\Program files, if you are on windows or [.deb] (https://github.com/swati-jaiswal/SJdownloader/releases/download/untagged-b06f5c71699795d49ddd/sjdownloader-1.0.0.deb) if using Linux.

Then for windows, run the setup.exe.
And and for Linux:
open the sjsownloader-1.0.0.deb and go through the step by step procedure.
Or

    :~$ sudo dpkg -i sjdownloader-1.0.0.deb  

For building from source see the [Dev-guide] (https://github.com/swati-jaiswal/SJdownloader/wiki/Dev-guide).
Happy downloading!

Interface and components

The downloader has three windows listed as follows.

Main window:

Main window

  • Their is a URL field to enter a URL.
  • A location field to enter the location for saving download.
    For this purpose, preferences can also be set to use default location.
  • Check boxes for applying filters on found links.
  • Regex facility to filter links according to your needs.
  • Progress bar to show progress of the download.
  • Links button to show available links.
  • Reset button to reset all widgets, so that to start a new download.
  • Browse button to browse location.
  • Start button to start download.
  • Cancel button to cancel download.
  • Close button to close window, It cancels all downloads and you can not resume them again.

Preferences window:

Preferences Their is a toolbar having four options:

  • General - To set general preferences, like
    • default saving location.
    • history saving options.
    • actions to be taken on already existing files in the same location.
  • Filters - To select default filters, which is a group of files of a similar kind.
  • History - Shows history list of pages visited.
  • Downloads - To set preferences for no of segments in which the download is to be broken.

####Downloads window: Downloads

Usage specification

  • For general use you can enter a link in the URL field and click start button for direct downloading.
  • Another use is to enter a link in URL field and click links button to see links to files on that page.
  • As you press links button, you can see no. of links in the central container.
  • You can check appropriate check boxes to get a particular type of files or enter a regex patter in regex box. or just check the default filter box if you have set your preferences. And you see only those links which suits you need.
  • You can select which file to download or click select all, if you want all files.
  • Do not close window when a download is in progress, otherwise you loose the whole file.
  • You can cancel a download in between by pressing cancel button so as to preserve the downloaded part file and then close the window if you need to.

Support

If you want to report the software, need help or want to suggest changes you can contact me at [@swati12jaiswal] (https://twitter.com/swati12jaiswal/) or drop me a mail at jaiswalswati94atTheRAteGMail Dot com. Visit the [project page] (http://swati-jaiswal.github.io/SJdownloader/).

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