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Wfdownloader is a very powerful all-in-one downloader with powerful features and rigorous design.Wfdownloader is free, and this tutorial provides you with a guide on how to install and use wfdownloader, especially on Twitter (X).Follow the tutorial and you’ll have access to a powerful video and image downloader that can power your content creation journey.
While Wfdownloader is able to fetch raw images directly from search engines like Google, Bing and Yandex, its best feature is to batch all the images, videos, audio files, etc. of a social media account, including Instagram, X/Twitter, Pinterest, ArtStation and other supported sites.This means that you can download all the historical videos and images under a social media account with Wfdownloader, which is so convenient for content removal and re-editing.While ordinary download tools can only do single downloads, not batch automated downloads, although some paid tools can do batch downloads, Wfdownloader is completely free.
Wfdownloader also has many powerful features including a customizable crawler for advanced link searches on any site, support for batch downloading of any type of media from forum threads, allowing downloads from password-protected sites, and batch downloads of consecutive files/URLs with a similar pattern (Fusker URLs).
All the features are free, we just need to learn how to use it without any payment!
Wfdownloader official website and download method
Wfdownloader official website：https://www.wfdownloader.xyz/
Wfdownloader Windows version download address：Mega.nz link
To download Wfdownloader, you just need to click the Download button on the official website to enter the download page, and then choose the platform version you need.Wfdownloader provides Windows, MacOS, Linux versions.
Wfdownloader’s download files are hosted on Mega.nz web disk, so when you click on download, you will be redirected to the web disk page.If you have already used this web disk, you can save it to your own storage space, if you haven’t used it, it doesn’t matter, you can just click on the web page to download it directly.
Wfdownloader install
The installation of Wfdownloader is very simple, take the windows version as an example, double-click the downloaded installation file can be.Here we need to note that the default storage path of Wfdownloader is under your “/Documents/WFDOWNLOAD”, which means that a storage directory of Wfdownloader will be automatically created under My Documents.Of course, you can also modify this path in the software.This path is used to save the content you download in the future.
Use of Wfdownloader
There are certain techniques to use Wfdownloader, which will need to be explained in detail here.Let’s take Twitter(X) as an example.Suppose our current task is to batch download all the video files under a Twitter account to local.
Step 1: Create a download project
Open a tweet (X) to the address of the target account, which must be the address of the account’s home page, not the address of a particular post.
For example “https://x.com/retro_twt”, Ctrl+C to copy it, then open Wfdownloader application, click the blue + button ADD button, paste this address, and choose a good download directory, you can directly name a directory name, even if itdoesn’t exist, Wfdownloader will create it automatically.It is recommended that the name of the directory be the same as the name of the target account, so that you can find it in the future.
Don’t rush to click Comfirm to confirm first, click Config on the left to configure.For example, if you only want to download all media files, then click Fetch media only on the Config page. if you only want to download videos, then check Videos only.
Other options include whether to batch download more than 1,000 or less, whether to include the account’s retweets and quotes, etc., all of which can be customized to suit your needs.
After the configuration is done, click Confirm to finish creating your download item.Wfdownloader will automatically try to start crawling, but if it’s your first time to use it, you’ll most likely see the following screen, it shows that it fails, and you need to log in, please import your browser cookies.It doesn’t matter, let’s click Confirm to finish creating it, and you’ll find a new numbered item on your left side.You’ll notice that you have an additional numbered item on the left side that you’ve named.If you create multiple downloads (different target Twitter accounts), there will be multiple digitally numbered items (BTW: renaming can be done via rename to your favorite clearly iconic name).
Wfdownloader works by using your browser cookie to access the homepage of the target account that Twitter would otherwise block you from accessing, so here’s how to get Wfdownloader to fetch your browser cookie.That’s what we’re going to solve in step 2, and solving it once can last a long time until the next timeCooking fails.
Step 2: Get and Import Browser Cookies
First, let’s search for editthiscookie in Google, select the first search result and install ditthiscookie, which is a google chrome extensions.
Install it into your Google Chrome browser.What?You’re not using Google Chrome?I would suggest you to install one.There are many kinds of browsers out there, but according to statistics, 60% of the world’s population uses Google Chrome, and at least so far, it’s the best browser to use, isn’t it?
Once the installation is complete, you’ll see a cookie logo in the plugin bar in the top right corner of your Google Chrome browser, if you can’t see it, you’ll need to go into the plugin settings to light it up.
Now we can move on to the next step, we now need to log in to our Twitter (X) account, once logged in, in the top right corner of Google Chrome, click on the plugin Editthiscookie to export your browser cookie, it will be saved in your clipboard.
Next you need to find the Task menu button on the top left in the Wfdownloader software (I hope you didn’t close it just now), click on it, find Import cookies from browser in the list, paste the cookies you just exported in the pop-up interface (below) and use yourCtrl+V shortcut.
Click Confirm and you have successfully imported your local browser’s cookies.
Next we also need to import our own Agent in the fill field at the bottom of this screen above, if you’re using it for the first time, you’ll have to import it once.How to find this one, pick it up.
Search Google for “my user agent”.
You’ll see your agent info directly, copy and paste it directly into your Wfdownloader, just below the screen where you just pasted the cookies.
OK, now you’ve finished configuring cookies and agent, which means you’re using your own identity to access the target account page when you download it.
Step 3: Pre-download the video or image of the target account
Remember when we created the project in the first step and couldn’t start the download because we didn’t have cookies and agent settings?Now that we have them set up, we can start creating the project for real.Let’s go back and continue with the first step of creating it, and this time you’ll see the pre-download information for it.
This interface is after we create the project, click confirm to confirm, it will start to search the downloadable content under the homepage of the target account that meets the setting, in the above interface you can see we have searched 1174 contents.After clicking confirm again, it will be saved as a valid project.
Step 4: Launch single or multiple download projects
Once the pre-download is complete, we have a lot of un-downloaded content in our project list.The next step is to launch the download project and batch download all this content to a local folder.
All we need to do is click the Start button at the top left to initiate the download.
We can see that in the download list, the content whose status becomes COMPLETE is the content that has been downloaded.When all the content shows complete, it means that you have finished downloading all the specified content for the searched target account.Now you can open your project download directory to view the content.
We can locate the directory directly by clicking on the Open Directory button.
Step 5: Update the downloaded items
There are a lot of target accounts which update their content on a daily basis, but we surely won’t re-download all of its content again, so here’s where we can use the update feature.Click on the Update button and it will update the new content that hasn’t been downloaded before.Isn’t that convenient?
Some of the conditions that may arise with the use of
Temporary account obstruction
Since Twitter (X) prohibits users from downloading frequently so as not to stress the server, when using wfdownloader, you may occasionally get stuck downloading, but not much.More likely your Twitter account will be restricted from logging in because it appears to the server that you are accessing file resources frequently.This will be lifted after an hour or two and won’t affect the account, at most it will make you re-verify your login.What about holding it to this condition, we’ll just log in with a different Twitter account, get the cookies again, and use the other account to continue the download with the new target account.
Slow pre-download or official download
Sometimes you may find that the pre-download is slow or the official download is not fast enough.This is related to your line.You can set up a proxy or change your internet line to solve the problem. wfdownloader is a native software, it doesn’t affect your download speed by itself.Keep patience while pre-downloading, generally it may take half an hour to an hour to fetch more than 1000+ entries.
Extremity
With the simple tutorials above, you’ve learned how to create projects, import cookies and agents, pre-download and officially batch download.These are just a few of the powerful features of wfdownloader.With this mode, we can also download all web-based content. wfdownloader is so powerful that we will be releasing other tutorials on how to download Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, and other social media and forum sites.We’ll have other tutorials on how to download Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, and other social media and forum sites.The content of this tutorial was originally published by Mastertechtips.org website, if you want to reproduce it, please retain the source, thank you.
