User guide

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. [Screenshots] (#screenshots).
4. [Usage specification] (#usage-specification).

Installation

You can install the application in the well known way.
Download the [exe] if you are on windows or [.deb] if using Linux.
Then for windows, run the setup.exe and for Linux open the setup.deb and go through the step by step procedure.
For building from source see the [Dev-guide].
Happy downloading!

Interface and components

The downloader has three windows listed as follows.

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:

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.

Screenshots

To do

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.