Using Download Druid in Practice

After installing Download Druid, your Internet Explorer will get two new buttons in the toolbar: Download All and Druid Bar. Using them is straightforward enough, however, we will describe some specific situations that require slightly different approaches:

Download All

By clicking on Download button in the toolbar, Download Druid will scan the current web page and display the list of all downloadable files that match the filter criteria. Then you can choose which files you want downloaded by clicking on the checkboxes in front of them. Once you have selected all the files you need, click Download Now to start downloading files, or click Export URLs to export their URLs to a plain text file.

You can also do this by right clicking anywhere on the web page in the area that is not a hyperlink or a picture and selecting Druid: Download All Files. It will bring up the same dialog for downloading as clicking on the Download button in the toolbar.

Download Highlighted Files Only

If you have any part of the web page highlighted (you can do this by clicking the left mouse button, keeping it clicked and dragging the pointer over a part of the page), clicking Download button in the toolbar will make Download Druid scan for downloadable files only within that selected part of the web page.

Again, you can do the same by highlighting a part of the web page, right clicking in the highlighted area (but not on a hyperlink or a picture) and selecting Druid: Download Highlighted Files option.

Downloading From Pages With Frames

Download Druid has to be used in a slightly different way when browsing through web pages that contain frames. In that case using the Download button in the toolbar will just pop-up the notification that you actually have to use the right click context menu to scan for downloadable files within frames. So, you will have to right click somewhere inside a frame and select Druid: Download All Files option from the context menu. As with regular pages, it will bring up the download dialog with a list of all downloadable files that fit in the filter criteria.