What's new in NeoDownloader
What changed in each version of NeoDownloader, newest first.
Version 6.1
Added
- A Browser screen in the program's window: tabs, back and forward, an address bar that also searches Google, and the sign-ins you made inside the program. Download there starts a project for the page you are reading while you keep reading, a link's menu has New project from link…, and a file a page hands over goes straight into your download folder. Open in browser in the menu of a project and of a file now opens the page there; to use the default browser instead, turn off Open web addresses in the program's browser in the program's general settings. A button beside the address bar opens the page you are reading in the default browser.
- On the Browser screen, Ctrl+F finds in the page, with a count of matches, and F3 steps through them. A page that cannot be opened - the site is not found, does not answer, or has an invalid certificate - says why above it, with Try again; a page that stopped working or hangs offers Reload.
- On the Browser screen, a new tab shows shortcuts to the sites you start from - Google Images, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest and more at first. Add your own with Add shortcut, change or remove one from its ⋮ menu, and drag them into the order you like.
- Make a recipe for a site with your AI app: connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or another app over MCP, and it studies the site, writes the recipe, checks it with a test run and saves it. Every step shows on the new AI Agent screen, where How to connect gives the steps and Allow MCP turns the connection off. Fix with AI in a project's panel shows how to connect the app and what to tell it about a site the program gets wrong.
- The Recipes tab of the AI Agent screen lists the recipes you and your AI app saved, says which recipe each one takes the place of, and deletes one, keeping a copy.
- Video Downloader and Gallery Downloader keep the components they download with up to date on their own, between releases: a site that changed keeps downloading without waiting for a new version of the program. A new component is taken a day after it comes out; Update plugin components in the program's general settings turns this off.
- Crawler: recipes for sites now come from the NeoDownloader catalog, so a fix for a site that changed reaches you the day it is published, without waiting for a new version. The program gets a recipe when a project needs it, your existing projects included. Update plugin components in the settings keeps them up to date, as it does the plugins' components.
- Crawler: under a run that failed on a recipe from the catalog, This recipe doesn't work tells us which one, and in the New project wizard Ask us for a recipe for this site asks for one, with a few words about what to download. Neither sends anything about you, and a recipe made for a request reaches you the next time you enter the site's address.
- Some sites give their files only to a browser - the pictures on Midjourney, for one - and refused NeoDownloader outright. Such files now come through NeoDownloader's own browser, by direct links, Crawler and Gallery Downloader alike, under the same limits as any other download; the journal says so once per site.
- Crawler: WSupercars wallpapers, one car or a whole brand, with a choice of regular, ultrawide, super ultrawide and phone wallpapers.
- Projects can download straight into the download folder, side by side, as in version 5: turn off Create a subfolder for each project in the program's general settings.
- New search: Open advanced settings, beside the download button, opens the project's settings first - filled from your last Crawler project - so they can be changed before the run, or the project dropped. The choice is kept for the next search.
- Video Downloader: a video playing on a web page - in a Wistia, Kaltura or Vimeo player, or straight on the page - is now downloaded by the page's own address, and the address Wistia's player copies works too.
- A project that finished with no files now offers to report the recipe or to ask for one for the site.
- Files: the Delete key deletes the selected files, and NeoDownloader now asks before deleting even one, naming the files. The question can be turned off in the settings.
Improved
- Crawler: Fix with AI takes the place of the unfinished recipe editor, which is no longer in the program. Recipes the editor saved earlier are used from now on: if one was only a test, delete it on the Recipes tab of the AI Agent screen.
- A project made from the Browser screen no longer appears unnoticed: Projects in the bar shows how many projects you have not opened yet, and their cards carry the dot that marks files you have not looked at.
- The menu of a project's card has Open the folder: the project's download folder in your file manager, without opening the project first.
- A new project starts from the settings of your last project with the same plugin - One folder in Gallery Downloader, quality and subtitles in Video Downloader - instead of the defaults. Settings about one site, such as a cookies file, still start fresh.
- Gallery Downloader: Put every file into one folder is a checkbox on the last step of the New project wizard, right under the folder.
- How to connect now covers many more AI apps, among them ChatGPT, Codex, VS Code and OpenCode, and a button adds NeoDownloader to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and OpenCode for you.
- Gallery Downloader: an Instagram profile now offers its reposts and the covers of its highlights among the sections to take, and Lensdump albums and member pages now download.
Fixed
- Security fixes in how the program connects to websites and reads their answers.
- Signing in works inside the program: Google no longer answers that the browser may not be secure, and signing in to a site through Google or another account opens its window in the program instead of your browser.
- A sign-in made in the program is kept even when the computer shuts down, or the program is closed by force, within seconds of it.
- Unsplash downloads again: the site now checks every visitor first, and the program passes the check on its own.
- Gallery Downloader: fixes for Instagram profiles and posts, and a Behance profile now brings all of its projects.
- Video Downloader: fixes for Bandcamp, Kick, TED and Twitch clips.
- A run that needs you - to sign in, or to check its starting page - asks you on whichever screen you are, the Browser and AI Agent included, instead of ending in an error unless Projects was open.
- A project made with Download from a Google Images search on the Browser screen no longer stops to show the search page again - and no longer ends in an error because of it.
- The New project wizard and the New search dialog are no longer closed by a click beside them. The click that brought the program's window back from another program used to close them, and everything entered was lost.
- New project: on a site that shows an anti-robot check, Crawler's card now says so instead of asking for a login, and Direct links no longer comes first there - it can pass neither a login nor a check. Such cards are marked Action needed.
- New project: an address that does not answer now says so in plain words, sooner, and you can ask us for that site right there.
- Crawler: thumbnails from Postimages in a forum post or on any other page bring their full-size pictures again. The site had moved them on its pages, and such a project ended empty.
- Gallery Downloader: a Wallhaven search with only its filters set is named after the list and the screen it is for, as in “Top Wallpapers 16x9 2560x1440”, instead of “None”. On any site, a gallery the site leaves without a name no longer lands in a folder called None.
- A file a site hands out through a download link with no extension in its address now gets the extension the site names for it, so a page of wallpapers behind download buttons arrives as pictures that open, rather than as nameless other files.
- Crawler: a project made from a search or the Browser screen now opens the sign-in page when its session has run out, instead of failing.
- Gallery Downloader: a page the site gives no name of its own is now named after its address, so projects of one site no longer end up in one folder.
- A file of the same name but another size already in the folder is no longer taken for the one on the site: it stays as it was, and the new file is saved beside it.
- A project no longer fails to start when another project is downloading into the same folder, and unfinished files that are not its own stay where they are.
- Gallery Downloader: when a site sends a web page instead of a file, the page is no longer saved as a file.
- Crawler: Just this page now downloads a picture that links straight to its file.
- Deleting a project with its files no longer removes empty folders you made yourself in the same folder.
- Crawler: the minimum picture size now applies to SVG files too, so small interface icons stay out.
- Crawler: pages in XHTML that start with an XML declaration are read like any other page.
- Video Downloader: a video that needs an account, such as a subscriber-only Twitch video, now asks you to sign in instead of saying the site cannot be reached.
And other small improvements.
Version 6.0.1
Added
- Video Downloader: a whole Internet Archive collection or search - films, old radio, concerts - in the order and with the filters the page shows.
- Crawler: a Google Images project has Minimum width and Minimum height under Filters in its site settings. Google states each picture's size in its results, so a smaller picture is not downloaded at all.
Improved
- Video Downloader: the files of an Internet Archive item land in a folder named after the item, under the names the archive gives them.
- Gallery Downloader: Behance files are named by creator, date, project title and number, and a profile or moodboard project takes the profile's or moodboard's name.
- Gallery Downloader: a Snapchat profile brings its story of the day along with its saved stories and Spotlight videos.
- Gallery Downloader: Snapchat files are named by profile, date and story title instead of long codes, and “Found on” opens each file's own story or Spotlight video.
- Video Downloader: a track the site offers only as a short preview is no longer saved as if it were the whole track - the journal says why it was not downloaded.
- Video Downloader: a link copied from SoundCloud's Share button works like the address of the track, profile or playlist itself.
- Video Downloader: music files carry their tags - title, artist, album, genre and date - so a music player lists each track by them rather than by its file name.
- Gallery Downloader: a GIF from a Tenor search or profile is “Found on” its own page, and “Open on the site” opens that GIF rather than the search.
Fixed
- Windows 11 with Smart App Control turned on no longer blocks parts of NeoDownloader when it starts: every file of the program is now signed, not only the ones you run.
- Video Downloader: audio files from the Internet Archive no longer end in "0p".
- Gallery Downloader: Behance projects, profiles and moodboards are no longer reported as a site that cannot be reached.
- Video Downloader: tracks from SoundCloud, Bandcamp and other music sites download on the free version - they used to stop with “format not available”.
- Video Downloader: songs of a JioSaavn album or playlist are named by their titles, with the artist and album inside, instead of a code.
- Video Downloader: Jamendo tracks no longer end in "400p" - they come in the best quality the site offers, with their tags inside.
- Video Downloader: a video behind a password says so - in the wizard and in the journal - instead of "DownloadError".
- Crawler: a Google image search copied from your own country's Google - google.de, google.co.uk and the rest - downloads the way one from google.com does, instead of being read as an unknown site.
- Gallery Downloader: a file whose address carries no extension, such as an X profile banner, is named by what the site sent - .jpg, .png and the like - instead of being saved without one.
- The file viewer speaks the program's language: its arrows, buttons and messages are no longer in English whatever the language you chose.
- Video Downloader: a video whose site refuses to give it stops within seconds and the journal says what the site answered. It used to stay at zero for up to an hour.
- Stop ends a project within seconds even while a plugin is waiting on a site that does not answer. It used to take minutes and end with "The plugin went quiet".
- Gallery Downloader: Instagram highlights and profile pictures download again, and Steam Community screenshots and artworks can be taken from a game's page or a person's profile.
And other small improvements.
Version 6.0
Added
- NeoDownloader 6, rewritten from the ground up. What it does and how it differs from version 5: Version 6.