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I'm too shy to publish your compliments :-), but this page contains the most commonquestions you asked so far, with the answers of course.

1. Downloading FLV files has never been easier, thanks to FlashGot, an unobtrusive Firefox add-on. Even without a user guide, this simple program will have the.
2. FlashGot Plugin for Mac, free and safe download. FlashGot Plugin latest version: Download from Firefox using your favorite manager.
3. 1.5 Q: After uninstalling FlashGot or changing my external download manager, downloads are still redirected (or attempted to be redirected) to my old download manager. What's happening? A: Many download managers are shipped with a native Mozilla plugin, i.e. A DLL file, which provides a very limited download support redirecting single browser clicks to the external program.

1 - troubleshooting

Other interesting Mac alternatives to FlashGet are Free Download Manager (Free), aria2 (Free, Open Source), Xtreme Download Manager (Free, Open Source) and Persepolis Download Manager (Free, Open Source). FlashGet is a download manager that uses the MHT technique and supports various protocols.

1.1

Q: I've just installed FlashGot and restarted my browser, but I see onlythe 'Build gallery' and 'FlashGot options' menu items. No 'FlashGot link',no 'FlashGot selection', no 'FlashGot all'! If I look at the download manager list,I see NO DOWNLOAD MANAGER DETECTED.What's happening?
A: This is quite a long answer, because it tries to take in account all the possible situations that can happen with the wide range of supported products.Please be patient and read it carefully, as it likely covers your issue too...
Check in FlashGot options that your download manager is correctly selected and enabled.
If your download manager is not enabled, turn on the FlashGot Options|Advanced|Automatic download manager detection and hit the Detect Now button.If your download manager is still not detected, best bet is a corrupted/incomplete installation of your download manager program:

• If you're using a Windows download manager (ReGet, Net Transport, LeechGetor any other supported one), probably it hasnot been properly installed (some component is not registered).
  Try to install that product again. If there's an option to installsomething like 'IE integration', answer Yes. But beware: if it says Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox plugin, you should not install it to avoid conflicts and problems.Strange but true: IE -> YES, Mozilla -> NO!
  You can actually tell if your installation is OK by checking if the 'Download with XyzDownloadManager' menu item actually works in MSIE.
  In facts, when it's possible FlashGot exploits the already present 'bridge' component used by your download manager to communicate with MSIE.This object can be missing or misinstalled for many reasons, e.g.:
  1. You was given the option of installing during your download manager setup, but you skipped it because you planned to use Firefox rather than IE (please reinstall carefully, see above)
  2. You installed your download manager logged with an unprivileged, non administrative, user account. Installing such a component requires administrative permissions, so redo download manager installation as Administrator or equivalent, if you can.
  3. Your antivirus/antispyware deleted your bridge component incorrectly detecting it as a malware. This may happen because those bridge components are usually implemented as BHO (Browser Helper Object) DLLs, the most similar thing to a Firefox addon known in the Interne Explorer world. Many security software vendors report all the DLLs of this kind as annoyances and disable/delete them.Please configure if your security tools not to mess with files located in your download manager installation folder (e.g. the Jccatch.dll file in the FlashGet case) and reinstall your download manager.
  LeechGet users!!! This seems a very common issue withLeechGet & FlashGot. LeechGet default setup skips the installation ofan 'IE integration Component'. You have to re-install LeechGet,paying attention to include this 'IE integration component' called (LeechGet 200x Internet Explorer Extension in latest versions).
  If you're upgrading (e.g. from LeechGet 2005 to LeechGet 2006), be also sure you uninstall previous versions before installing new version.
  If you already upgraded and didn't do this way, please uninstall every LeechGet version you've got, reboot if needed and then reinstall latest version.
• If your platform is Linux, check that your download manager executable(aria for Aria, nt or d4x depending on version for Downloader 4 X) is in the executable path.
• If your platform is Mac OS X, be sure your download manager (Speed Download, IGet...) is properly installed in the /Application folder. If it is already, try to uninstall it using its uninstaller program and reinstall it again in the Application folder, following with a sane reboot.
• If you're a Chinese, Japanese, Russian or otherwise Unicode-dependent user, i.e. your language uses 'special' characters outside the ASCII set, please take a look at FAQ 1.3
• Be sure you installed both the browser and the download manager under an administrative account (it is the recommended setup).

Did you check all the above items and still can't make FlashGot work?I'll appreciate if you notify me attaching your log (FlashGot Options|Advanced|Show Log).

1.4

Q: I've got a little trouble installing the extension using Mozilla Suite (or SeaMonkey).After downloading the install starts and i get the following error:
You probably don't have appropriate permissions (write access to your profile or chrome directory).
Error code: -202
Installation works flawlessly in Firefox.
A: Due to a limitation in Mozilla Suite (which lacks the true extensions support introduced with Firefox),installing an addon which delivers its own XPCOM components (such as FlashGot, NoScript, FoxyTunes, ColorZilla and many others) can be a bit cumbersome.
You need write access to the Mozilla installation directory when you install the extension.This can happen in different ways:

1. You can regularly run Mozilla as root/Administrator (not advised for obvious security reasons!!!).
2. You can run Mozilla as root/Administrator just once and install the extension globally, so it is avalaible to other users/profiles too
3. You can install a local copy of mozilla in your home directory and use it as a regular user (recommended solution).

Firefox doesn't suffer of this problem because XPCOM components are installed in the profile directory (where you always have write permissions).

2 - security concerns

2.3

Q: I read versions 0.3.4 and above of FlashGot contain a 'simple HTTP server'(and my personal firewall complaints about it). Is it a danger formy privacy/security?
A: FlashGot 0.3.4 only uses the HTTP protocol to serve the Download selection URL list for LeechGet. It was an apparentlymad idea I had just before giving up and disabling this feature for LeechGet, but it worked (more or less), and now that the infrastructure is inplace I'm planning to use it as a mean of inter-process communicationto integrate non-gui and/or non-COM download managers like wget,prozilla, axel and so on and achieve the much requested Linux/Unix support.
Someone (including some zelous firewall) may argue it is a potentialsecurity breach, but I can assure (and you can verify digging the source JavaScript code FlashGotService.js) that this is indeedthe most secure web server in the world:

1. It is bound only to your loopback interface (localhost), soit will not accept any request coming from outside your PC
2. It supports only one method, GET
3. It serves only documentsproduced by itself (it keeps track in memory of the generated documents,and matches each request against its internal list)
4. Currently generated documents are only url lists for Download selection command
5. Each generated document has a random 8 character unique name, so it'svery hard to fetch it unless you know about it, i.e. you are a download manager andFlashGot whispers the name in your ears :-)
6. Server TCP port randomly changes every time you start the browser

Maybe it is also the most lightweight HTTP server in the world: less than 200 lines of JavaScript code ;-)

3 - general info

4 - installing / uninstalling / updates

4.1

Q: How do I install FlashGot?
A:

• Go to this page and follow the instructions.
  Should it not work, with a message about installation not permitted or disabled, follow these steps:
  1. Open Tools|Options|Security
  2. Click on the exceptions button next to Warn me when websites try to install add-ons
  3. Type 'flashgot.net' in the text box
  4. Hit 'allow' button
  5. Retry installation
• If Firefox still refuses to install the xpi,
  1. Open about:config in your location bar (just like a normal web site address)
  2. Find the xpinstall.enabled preference and set it to true
  3. Retry installation
• If you get an Invalid package error (Firefox) or an Error -239 (SeaMonkey 1.x), you're facing a (temporary) network failure. Please clear your cache and try again (maybe half an hour later). You may also try the direct link on this page.
• If you get an Error -220 on SeaMonkey 1.x, please read FAQ 1.4.

More about the above and other useful hints for special cases (e.g. 'Error -203') in this Mozillazine knowledge base article.
It's also been reported that certain security applications, such as ThreatFire,may prevent some Firefox extensions from being installed. If you see this happening, try to temporarily disablethe offending application (thanks Emil Baldwin Jr. for reporting).

4.3

Flashgot For Mac

Q: I want to get rid of FlashGot. How can I uninstall it?
A: Well, this is not exactly a frequently asked question, but neverthelesssomeone (very few) actually wondered about it... Just for academic knowledge sake:

1. If you're using Firefox, open the Extension Manager by selecting the Toos|Add-ons menu and choosing the Extensions tab).
   Highlight the 'FlashGot' row and click the Uninstall button.
   In the rare case it doesn't work, read next points.
2. If your Extension Manager does not open or your extensions are not shown there, your Mozilla/Firefox Profileis probably corrupted:migrating your data to a new profile may help.
3. If you're using Mozilla or SeaMonkey,please refer to this article.

If you want to get rid of the external download manager as well, you have also to deletethe native Mozilla plugin shipped with your download manager, i.e. a DLL fileplaced in your %MOZILLA_HOME%plugins directory, that you may have accidentally installed. Some known plugins arenpfdm.dll (Free Download Manager), fdplugin.dll (FreshDownload), NPLeetchGet.dll (LeechGet).
You can learn which plugins are installed and how their DLLs are called typing about:plugins in your address bar and hitting [Enter].Notice that if you use FlashGot, you don't need any of them, and I strongly discourage their usage.
Appendix A: Getting rid of True Downloader.True Downloader is far from being perfect in many areas, including uninstaller :(
To get rid of its FlashGot menu entry you have to manually delete at least this registry key (with its descendants) using regedit.exe (be careful!):
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTrueDownloaderProject.TrueDownloader
If you feel confident enough with the Windows registry, you may want to finish cleanup removing also:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{5C1E8BA7-BCE7-4370-8DA5-F7FAF7E479CB}
and
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{B5F45811-6072-4A70-8741-B783AD048A31}
Appendix B: Getting rid of HiDownload.
It seems HiDownload uninstallation program is defective.
It actually leaves a remnant which is autodetected by FlashGot even after uninstalling the program:
C:WINDOWSsystem32NMDll.dll
Before you remove it, you must issue this command to unregister it:
regsvr32 /u C:WINDOWSsystem32NMDll.dll
(adjust path according to your window system directory location).

5 - build gallery

5.2

Q: I'm trying to assemble a gallery and it has preview thumbs in a structure like this:http://www.example.com/gallery/099/099.jpg
http://www.example.com/gallery/100/100.jpg
http://www.example.com/gallery/101/101.jpg
...Each preview thumb is in its own folder, as you can see.
Usinghttp://www.example.com/gallery/[099-200]/[099-200].jpgas you would expect generateshttp://www.example.com/gallery/099/099.jpg
http://www.example.com/gallery/099/100.jpg
http://www.example.com/gallery/099/101.jpg
http://www.example.com/gallery/099/102.jpg
etc., and that just chews up memory with a lot of unuseful items.
What is the right syntax to do it?
A: Since 0.5.9.3 you can use bracketed ranges references (AKA interrelated ranges), with no more need for custom JavaScript functions:[$1] stands for the first range, [$2] for the second and so on, up to [$9]. [$0] returns current global index (like this.index in custom JavaScript functions), whiletrailing zeroes after the $ character effect padding.
Hence Your example becomes:
which givesas desired!

6 - supported products

6.1

Q: What is the best download manager to be used with FlashGot?
A: It's a matter of taste. Each one has its strengths and its glitches, so you should try some and decide what is better to you.The following are my current personal favourites, in order:

1. ReGet Deluxe (shareware) because of its superior flexibility and configurability. ReGet is also known to be better at intercepting and downloading audio/video streams, and it's capable to circumvent most anti-leech schemes
2. wxDownload Fast because it's open source and cross-platform (i.e. works on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X)
3. Speed Download (shareware) because it's the most advanced running on Mac OS X
4. Downloader 4 X (open source) because it's the most advanced running on Linux/FreeBSD

GetRight isa very popular shareware product too, with a small limitation but many innovative and powerful features (like scripting or upload support) which make it a great professional tool.A complete list of the supported products is here.

6.4

Q: What does 'RapidShare Support' mean?
A:

• For RapidShare.comPremium users, the ability of downloading files(by any single or multiple FlashGot command) directly from wherever their links (sometimes called 'codes') are posted.Just remember to enable the Direct downloads preference in yourRapidShare.com Premium Zone Options page.
• For RapidShare.dePremium users (who are encouraged to migrate on themore download friendly RapidShare.COM), a little 'hidden' feature tomake mass downloading a bit easier. You can activate it by opening about:config in your Firefox address bar and turning on the flashgot.rsPremium preference. You need also to enable the FlashGot toolbar button.
  That's how it works:
  1. Login to your RapidShare account (once per session)
  2. Open all the links you want to download into tabs, by quickly middle-clicking on each or using the Linky extension ('Open selected links in new tabs') - anyway it's just a matter of 2/3 seconds...
  3. Now use the new 'Rapidhshare Premium' menu item you should have under your FlashGot toolbar button menu and wait until all the tabs are reloaded (this automatically hits the 'PREMIUM' button for you on each of the Rapidshare tabs)
  4. When the tabs have finished reloading, use the 'Rapidhshare Premium' menu item again: this will batch-send all the Rapidsharelinks found in tabs to the download manager, automatically choosing one random mirror link from each tab.
  As I said, this is far from being an ultimate soultion, but at least it spares a lot of time and clicks when links are more than 2 (the more the links in a batch, the more the saved work).
  Notice that you can combine in a single operation as many links as you want, provided that your Firefox window doesn't collapse under the multiple tabs.
  
• For free (casual) users of both RapidShare.com and RapidShare.de, the ability of passing the file to be downloadedto the external download manager after they enter the captcha code (i.e. the code displayed as an image to fool bots).
  To do so, you must be careful and use Alt+Click (instead of the regular click) on the 'Download' button, or use the FlashGot autostart downloads option.
  Notice that RapidShare limits free users to one single download at time, hence you will need to configure your download manager so that it avoids opening multiple concurrent connections towards RapidShare, or use a differntProxy Server for each connection. If this seems too much a hassle, you may consider opening a RapidShare.com Premium account.
  

6.5

Q: I use cURL (or GetRight or WGet or another download manager having no built-in directory chooser).How can I require FlashGot to ask me the folder where I want to save the links every time I start a job? It keeps saving everything on my desktop, which is very annoying...
A: FlashGot looks at the Firefox preferences to decide where files have to go if the external download manager doesn't ask by itself.
Just check:

• On Windows, Tools|Options|Downloads|Ask me where to save every file
• On Mac OS X, Firefox|Preferences|Downloads|Ask me where to save every file
• On Linux, File|Preferences|Downloads|Ask me where to save every file

6.6

Q: I use GetRight (or cURL or WGet or another download manager having no built-in directory chooser).Since I upgraded FlashGot, it keeps asking me which folder I want to save my downloads in. It did not use to behave so, and I want my files to automatically be saved in the same directory without prompting.
A: FlashGot looks at the Firefox preferences to decide where files have to go if the external download manager can't ask by itself.
Just set:

• On Windows, Tools|Options|Downloads|Save all files in this folder
• On Mac OS X, Firefox|Preferences|Downloads|Save all files in this folder
• On Linux, File|Preferences|Downloads|Save all files in this folder

Notice that some download managers may override this download folder preference, e.g. choosing the right directory depending on the file type.
Finally, FlashGot 0.5.9.995 and above asks for a download folder by default on batch downloads (e.g. FlashGot All or FlashGot Selection), no matter how the preferences above look like (they still apply to single link downloads). You can change this behaviour opening about:config in your location bar (just like a normal web address) and setting the flashgot.multiQuiet preference to true.

7 - video and audio streams

Flash For Mac