Chrome extension to customise download directory based off metadata
Files will be saved in a location provided to the extension. By default this is "%y-%m-%d/%f" without quotes. To modify, go to chrome://extensions, find Custom Download Directory and click details, then click extension options.
The format string contains embedded formatting tags prefixed with a %, which are explained in the table below. Any other characters are used as is. Use / to create folders based off the tags provided.
| Specifier | Output | Example |
|---|---|---|
| % | The character % | % |
| f | The name of the file being downloaded | example.json |
| y | The year the download started | 2020 |
| m | The month the download started as two digits | 09 |
| d | The day the download started as two digits | 10 |
| h | The hour the download started as two digits | 14 |
| M | The minute the download started as two digits | 53 |
| s | The second the download started as two digits | 08 |
| H | The hostname of the website the download originated from | willtc.uk |
| p | The path in the url the file is stored in | static/js |
| Format | Example output |
|---|---|
| %y-%m-%d/%f | 2020-09-10/example.json |
| %y/%m/%d/%h/%f | 2020/09/10/14/example.json |
| %H/%p/%f | willtc.uk/static/js/example.json |