Reviews for Humble Bundle Downloader
Humble Bundle Downloader by Behrouze
26 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sajith, 21 days agoThis add-on is such a fantastic time saver. Thank you very much!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dennis, 4 months agoLove this add-on! It has made downloading files on Humble Bundle infinitely better.
The interface is user-friendly. At first, I thought something went wrong when I noticed the webpage was missing the usual download button, but a message in its place cleared things up.
Out of 200 files on a single bundle, only 2 files were 0B. In my case, the files in question downloaded correctly the first time then a second attempt was made to download but stopped at 0B. Oddly, Firefox did not report a second download for either file.
Overall, I highly recommend. - Rated 1 out of 5by Sin of Nature, 9 months agoNOTE: For people experiencing a pop up save box for each file, you need to go into Firefox settings and untick "Always ask you where to save files". This will fix it.
BUGS FOUND:
- If the item starts with a symbol such as a (, it fails to download.
- If you have 2 items labelled such as bob 2017 and the another item directly below called bob, it ignores the 2nd item. They must be checking using a LIKE statement rather than an exact method.
- Certain symbols seem to break downloads
- Endless downloading of the same file causing lots of (1), (2) filenames... usually 0 Byte files.
I appreciate all the work gone into this but it simply does not work correctly (Version 1.5.2). It could be awesome but it simply misses things.
I have about 70+bundles and it has failed to download all items in a bundle except maybe 5 very small bunldes. It misses things consistently. Even if you re-run the download, the same items are missed. The box that appears at the start shows the correct values (21 PDF, 21 EPUB...). However, if you actually look in the folder after it has finished and count the actual files downloaded, they'll always be ones missing. The last item seems to be a common culprit, but not always.
You can also see on the downloads page that it tries to download the same file multiple times. An example is the "Become a Linux Master by Packt". It detects 21 PDF's but downloads 20 PDF. You can see it has tried to download the same pdf twice. The situation is worse for large bundles. I think its failing (due to characters, names or something) on items then using the previous items value and ends up trying to download the same thing again.
Sorry, but I don't have time to go through every bundle file type to try work out what item has been missed by comparing it to the HumbleBundle page.
Hopefully the author can fix the issues or release the code on GitHub so others can take a look. If it worked as expected, definite 5 stars. There are other tools on GitHub but this one renames the files in a really nice manner. - Rated 2 out of 5by Ron Zoscak, a year agoIt still opens the save dialog for every pdf in the bundle. It also missed some, and at least one had some sort of error which prevented it from displaying in my default reader, the Edge browser. On the plus side, it gave the files better names than when downloading without the extension and created a directory structure for the bundle I was downloading.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FabianMartin, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by C Kashuba, a year agoWorks great. Whatever was changed so that I do not have to manually go back and retry the fails, kudos. I just have to clean up the 0 byte downloads. A really minor post download task.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kat, 2 years agoIt launches individual book downloads instead of bulking it, something does not work here as intended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eddie Slabb, 2 years agoThe Humble bundle site has always been dreadful to negotiate to re-download purchased content. I'm pleased to say that this extension manages the DL process smoothly. You do need to open the page for each bundle, but one click later and it's downloading. The option to DL all files or only particular extensions is very useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15428235, 2 years agoI absolutely love this plugin. It takes out so much of the annoyance of dealing with humble's download features! Also the face it actually renames the files and arranges them in their own folder structure. 5/5 for sure!
- Rated 1 out of 5by houston92, 2 years agouseless. requires you to click on every individual bundle you have purchased instead of letting you mass download all files from your humble bundle library. saves no time whatsoever.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frans, 2 years agoThanks for this! Is it possible to integrate with IDM?
Edit: Also, downloading the new bundle Low Poly 3D, it seems to download the files twice and rename either the duplicate or original by appending (1) or (2) depending on how many there are.
The extra files being added are also 0B. "Corrupted" / no content zip downloads.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review Frans !
What is IDM ? You can write me by email for further discussion 📨
Concerning the bug, thanks for reporting it 👍 it's identified but must find time 🕰️ to correct it. Soon 😉
✨ Update : This should be fixed by now 🧹 (version 1.4.0)
@everyone, please contact me by email ✉️ to inform me and help me debug in such cases 🙏 - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17428298, 2 years agoIt used to work, but now it seemingly only downloads one book from each bundle and doesn't do anything else. I can't seem to get all my books to download like it used too so I can back them up to other drives...
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYes I made some (big) changes to fix a download issue for users who were downloading huge bundles and there was a bug...
✨ Update : It is fixed now 👍 (version 1.3.12)
@everyone, please contact me by email ✉️ to inform me and help me debug in such cases 🙏 - Rated 2 out of 5by user2434, 2 years agoI would say that this add-on is OK, but not quite what I wanted. The file renaming feature is what drives me crazy sometimes. It is based on what the developer thinks is good, but that is not necessarily what I want. It would be great if the file renaming feature can be optionally disabled. For me, I already have my own method of using the default file names as set by Humble Bundle, so I don't need someone else to screw that up. So please let the user optionally disable the file renaming feature. How hard would it be to implement that? I'm not asking for anything really fancy here. Until that disable option is made available, I am not using this add-on.
Edit: to clarify, one of the reasons why I choose to not have something else (like this add-on) rename files for me is because, by preserving the original file names, I can very easily verify that I already downloaded it by trying to re-download it with the browser set to prompt me. Using that method, the browser will also tell me if the file already exists in the download directory. If the file was renamed, this would not work and I would have to, instead, manually and visually compare the names of the downloaded files with the names on the download page, which can be very error-prone and much more time-consuming, especially if you have multiple books with similar titles (like in packs of comic books). Unlike other users, I do not blindly trust software like this add-on to be perfect all the time and not miss any book during the downloads. I also don't trust that it will always properly rename files, especially since it cannot control how HB constructs the original textual strings of the file names. So, if the add-on gave me the ability to disable file renaming, I can more easily verify that it did not miss books during downloads. - Rated 5 out of 5by Juraj Mäsiar, 2 years agoGreat help with naming the e-books!
Thank you for making my life easier :) - Rated 5 out of 5by wirrlicht, 2 years agoEver tried to download large Bundles? This Addon is exactly what you need!
- Rated 4 out of 5by TallestGargoyle, 3 years agoSuch a useful add-on, real quick and easy to download a whole bunch of files, and the formatting is so much better than the single word zip files Humble Bundle gives themselves.
Though when trying to download the recent 3D printer model bundle, I have noticed some files are getting missed. It appears to be any download link that doesn't have a direct creator link, so I'm assuming that's what the addon is looking for when downloading? It's a shame, since there are 35 downloads out of the 120 that didn't get picked up.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello !
I have only purchased (and developed this Firefox extension with) book bundles.
If you encounter download problems, feel free to send me an email with the HTML code (+ screenshots) of the page that has failing downloads so I can fix that bug 🐛.
- open the bundle page
- open Firefox devtools ( F12 or CTRL + SHIFT + I)
- select (if not already) the Inspector
- in the Search HTML bar, type (or copy/paste) : download-rows (this will highlight the line containing all the bundles infos)
- right click on the HTML tag (that has a class "download-rows") > copy > Outer HTML
- paste it in a .txt file (it should start with - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13948166, 3 years agoWorks great, thank you for creating and sharing this!!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Alexander Nolting, 3 years agoUpdate:
Das Addon hat Schwierigkeiten die korrekte URL von Buchkäufen zu ermitteln, wenn der Download das erstemal für ein Bundle von Büchern gestartet wurde. Wenn man danach ein weiteres Bundle komplett zu laden, bricht jeder einzelne Download mit dem Fehler Not Found ab. Offenbar wird anschliessend die falsche Variablenkette als Key in Download Link verwendet oder angehängt. Der Download Link aus dem Browser Chronik Eintrag entspricht nicht dem Wert, der in dem Link zum jeweiligen Buch im Link angegeben ist.
Da mir völlig unklar ist, wieso Humble Bundle die Idee des Bulk Download nicht versteht und nur per script die Download Funktion des Browser anschmeisst, noch dazu mit Dateinamen, die anschliessend manuell korrigiert werden müssen, rettet diese Addon mir den Tag.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello,
Sorry I am not fluent in German (even if the plugin is translated 🥳) and don't forget that I provide this peace of software for free, developed on my free time 😎 (3 stars is harsh 😕)
If you encounter download problems, feel free to send me an email in English with the HTML code (+ screenshots) of the page that has failing downloads so I can fix that bug 🐛.
Without the HTML code I cannot fix bugs...
Also be sure to use last versions of Firefox and this plugin 👍 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17071408, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by seqizz, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KaosNews, 3 years agoThis is a great extension. The only problem I had was that it wouldn't download books that didn't have an external link to the publisher. So the popup show the correct amount - but the downloads misses 1 or 2 books
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThanks for the usefull feedback and nice rating 💙 I never encountered this kind of item in a bundle, I'll take it into account for the next release 👍 thanks - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15284059, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mongertaja, 3 years agoHumble Bundle's current bulk download functionality drove me insane. This fixed it. Thanks.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThanks for your feedback 👍 that's also why I developed this extension 😜 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13003881, 4 years agoThe only thing I miss is the ability to configure the target filenames (e.g. possibility to add the author name), which would make it easier to parse them in calibre.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback ! There was a bug that has been fixed, including the editor's name in the file name was designed from the beginning 🤭
I also improved the naming so it could includes special characters, here is an example of the new feature (in versions > 1.2.0):
before : C - 8-0 Pocket Reference.pdf
now : C# 8.0 Pocket Reference - O'Reilly.pdf
Better right ?
Enjoy 🦛 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12692951, 4 years ago