Internet Download Manager (IDM) Tutorial

Internet Download Manager (IDM) A Complete Tutorial
Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a most powerful tool to download any file from Internet. It’s not a free software but you can try it for 30 days. So if you don’t have it then download from HERE and install on your PC right now.
Internet Download Manager main Window
Internet Download Manager main Window
You see the Control Buttons I marked from 1 – 12 will explain here one by one. Let’s start now.
  1. Add URL: To add a download link manually right click->Copy link address on any download page then click this button. You will see the link will be added automatically.
  2. Start/Resume: Resume to download the selected files.
  3. Stop: Stop to download the selected files.
  4. Stop All: Stop all downloads.
  5. Delete: Remove the selected files from download list which links are occurred or canceled.
  6. Delete Co…: Delete all completed files from the list. (Note: It’s not meant to delete original file. It will only delete the list from the window).
  7. Options: Its have many settings like Browser Integration, File Types, Proxy, Connection and more. Learn more about it from below.
  8. Scheduler: Schedule for sequence download. Learn more from below.
  9. Start Queue: To start main download queue. It’s a sequence downloading process.
  10. Stop Queue: To stop main download queue or sequence download.
  11. Grabber: Grab a site. I explained about this feature below.
  12. Tell a Friend: Write something about IDM to your friend.

How to download a file using IDM

Now be ready to download a file using IDM. Go to a download page and click on the download link to download any type of file.

download a file using IDM

You can download the file by one click or right click on the link will appear some options. Now click on Download with IDM then will show the following dialog.

IDM download dialog

(Note: if this dialog not appear then probably your browser can’t support IDM. Learn how to integrate a browser with IDM from below.)
  • URL: Just showing the download link address of the file.
  • Category: It’s not important but you can change or add a new category. If you check IDM Main Window screenshot above will see there are some categories on the left side. You can set a category according to file types (e.g. .mp3 for music category, .mp4 for Video category, .doc for Documents category just like this)
  • Save As: You can rename the file or can change the path where the file will save after downloaded. If you check “Remember this path for “Music” category” then you will no longer need to change this path for the next downloads of this category.
  • Description: Not important you can leave it.
  • Start Download: Download immediately.
  • Download Later: After clicking on this button the file will be added to queue and you can download it later from IDM main window by clicking on Start Queue button.
  • Cancel: To cancel download.

IDM download status, speed limiter & Options on completion tabs

This dialog will open up during downloading a file. You will see there are 3 tabs Download status, Speed Limiter and Options on completion. I will give you a quick explanation about these 3 Tabs.
  1. Download status: Nothing to do here. Just only you can see the status like File size, Transfer rate, Time left and more.
  2. Speed Limiter: After clicking on this tab you will get 2 checkboxes Use Speed Limiter to limit download speed and Remember this speed limiter for next downloads.
  3. Options on completions: There are a couple of settings but usually the last one “Turn off computer when done” is needed. It means after finishing the download your Computer will be shut down automatically.

How to download a Video using IDM

IDM also allows to download any video file from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and more websites. When you play any video will show a download panel. See the following image.

Download Video using IDM

You can choose the video quality from download lists on YouTube. Choose a quality and start to download.

Drag and Drop Feature

It’s a great feature to download one or multiple files using IDM. For one file simply drag the download link and for multiple files select the download links at first by holding left key and drag your mouse to select the links on any download page then drop on IDM main window.

If you drag just one link will open up the dialog you already knew about it above or if you drag more than one link together then this time will show a Clipboard.

Drag Drop feature in IDM

If you want to download all files then just click on Check All button.

IDM queue ok button

Check Start queue processing to start download immediately then click on ok button.
(Note: You also can drag and drop downloaded files out of Internet Download Manager)

Right Button Features in IDM Main Window

If you right click on any file will see some options like the following screenshot.

IDM right button feature

  • Open: The file will open with a default software (e.g. filename.mp3 will open with a media player).
  • Open with…: Choose a software to open with.
  • Open folder: Folder path of the file.
  • Move/Rename: To rename or move the file.
  • Redownloaded: To redownload the file again from starting.
  • Resume Download: If download has been cancelled or failed then can be resumed it again.
  • Stop download: To stop download.
  • Refresh downloaded address: If you paused the download in the middle way and now not working even after using Resume Download button then you should use this button. IDM will lead you to the download page and you have to click on the download link one more time again. Hope it will work from that time you paused before.
  • Remove: Remove file from the list. Even you can delete the original file after selecting Delete completely download files… checkbox from the Confirmation dialog.
  • Add to queue: To add the file to queue.
  • Delete from queue: Delete the added file from the queue.
  • Properties: See the file properties like file type, file size, Save to, Address and more.

Internet Download Manager Configuration

To configure Internet Download Manager open IDM main window and click on Options button or click Downloads->Options from menu item.

IDM Options button

Although there are 9 tabs but I will only explain about General and File Types Tabs because it’s important.

Browser Integration

IDM browser integration

If any browser can’t support IDM then you have to check this settings. Be sure the browser you want to integrate it’s already checked, if not, then check the browser box. Even after this setting browser can’t support IDM then you have to check your Browser Extensions/Add-ons Manager for one more time.

Chrome: Be sure IDM is working with browser. Follow the screenshot below.

Chrome Extensions menu

Check if IDM is enabled or working with the browser then the icon will be colored otherwise it would be gray. If you are unable or Browser preventing to enable IDM, probably browser and IDM version can’t match. So to fix this problem you should upgrade IDM or update the browser.

IDM Integration with Chrome

Firefox: Go to Firefox Add-ones Manager page to check if IDM is working with this browser. Click Add-ons button from Menu.

IDM integration in Firefox

You see my browser couldn’t support IDM, also it’s gray and disabled. It says incompatible with Firefox 43.0. So I have to update the browser.

Downloaded File Types

If IDM can’t support any file type or it tries to download any file during visit any webpage. You just need to edit the file type from here. Just type the file extension into this box (e.g. MKV, RAR) or remove any file type to prevent auto download.

IDM File Types

IDM Scheduler and Queue

Now I will explain about IDM Scheduler and Queue. Scheduler is to set download time when it will start downloading and stop. Queue is for sequence download. If you added a lot of download links then you can choose Queue button to download all files. You can set how many files will download at the same time. Now click on Scheduler button to open up this window.

IDM Scheduler and Queue

On the left side there is a Queue categories. Make sure which queue you want to configure by selecting.
  • Check Start download at when will start downloading. You can set this for Once or Daily.
  • Check Stop download at when it will be stopped.
  • The last one is Turn off computer when done. If you checked this option then computer will be shut down after all downloads complete.

Download file limit in IDM

From here you can limit download files at the same time. For example you added 50 files to download. Now if you set 5 files here then IDM will download 5 files at the same time and after 5 files downloaded IDM will start to download next 5 files again.

After this settings completed click Apply button and click Start now button for immediate starting.

How to use IDM Site Grabber

If you want to browse a website offline then you can grab that site by using IDM Site Grabber.

#Step 1:

IDM site grabber step 1
  • Give a project name.
  • Paste a webpage URL you want to grab (e. g. homepage or any single page).
  • Select a Project template. If you want to grab whole site then select The whole web site. Pictures for download pictures, Audio for audio files, video for video files.
  • Some websites ask you to login to download any file. So you can login from here using login id and password.
  • Then click next button to go to the next step.
#Step 2:
In the second step you can select the folder path where the project will save to.

#Step 3:
In the third step nothing important to do. Just ignore it.

#Step 4:
Select the file types from the dropdown list. Even you can add Filter manually. Then click on next button.

IDM site grabber file filters

#Final Step:

IDM site grabber

IDM will take a while to explore the files from that webpage. In the right panel all files will appear. If you think you got those files you wanted to download then just stop exploring by clicking Stop Exploring button or if you want to download more files then wait. Now check the files you are interested to download and click Start download button. Wait until finish.

IDM site grabber downloading

You see the download status in the panel. Also you can go to the downloaded folder by clicking right button.

If you think this tutorial helped you then don’t forget to share it with your friends. Thanks.

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