Is there a firefox plugin/extension that can download files in each directory?

Question

There is a website, which looks like:

Index of /2010/fall/lectures/
Name    Last Modified   Size    Type
Parent Directory/       -   Directory
0/  2011-Feb-15 12:35:17    -   Directory
1/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:35    -   Directory
10/ 2011-Feb-15 11:42:48    -   Directory
2/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:39    -   Directory
3/  2011-Jun-18 10:48:50    -   Directory
4/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:44    -   Directory
5/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:46    -   Directory
6/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:48    -   Directory
7/  2011-Aug-01 23:07:15    -   Directory
8/  2011-Feb-15 12:12:52    -   Directory
9/  2011-Feb-15 11:42:49    -   Directory

In each directory, there are some files.

I know in Firefox, there is "DownloadThemAll! Tools" that can download all files under current directory. But I don't know how to easily download files in each directory without manually clicking into each directory and then using the previous mentioned tool.

Also I only would like to download pdf and zip files, not those large mp3 and flv files. "DownloadThemAll! Tools" can achieve this by filters. But I don't know how to do this for files in each directory.

Thanks and regards!

Answer 1

The easiest way I know of to grab directories full of files like this is with a command-line tool called wget. If you're running Linux or OSX, it should be there by default. If you're running Windows, wget is included in the unxutils package.

Open a command prompt, navigate to a new empty directory, and run

wget -m -nH <your URL>