Download Only JPG or PNG and Skip Everything Else

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You need photos, not a grab bag of sprite sheets, tracking pixels, and animated GIFs. Telling the tool to download only JPG or PNG keeps your folder consistent and saves you from deleting junk formats one by one. There are three ways to enforce it, and they stack nicely.

Use the file-type filter to download only JPG or PNG

The simplest way to download only JPG or PNG is the file-type filter in the download settings. Tick JPEG and PNG, leave the rest unticked, and the run skips WebP, GIF, SVG, and anything else outright. The scraper filters offer the same control at scan time, so you can narrow results to just the formats you care about before they ever reach a task. This single setting handles the majority of cases, and because it sits in the download settings it applies to every task you run without reconfiguring.

Catch the stragglers with IF-URL rules

Some links hide their real type or carry an extension that lies. Download IF URL rules give you a second, sharper gate, evaluated at download time:

  • Add Contains rules for .jpg, .jpeg, and .png joined with OR logic, so a link must match one of them.
  • Add Not Contains rules for .webp, .gif, or .svg to reject the formats you never want.
  • Use a Regex rule for precise extension matching when URLs are noisy.

Because these rules apply at download time, your pasted list stays intact while only the matching files actually save. You can keep one master list and let different rule sets decide what each run pulls from it, which is far cleaner than maintaining a separate trimmed list for every format you want.

Convert instead of discard when you want the picture

Sometimes the only copy of an image you need is a WebP, and you still want it as a JPG or PNG. Rather than skip it, use the on-download Convert option. The Canvas-based pipeline runs in background Web Workers and can convert JPEG, WebP, and PNG, so you can pull a WebP source and have it land as a clean JPG. That way you download only JPG or PNG files in the end, even when the source mixed formats. One honest caveat: AVIF is not supported in the Canvas conversion, so plan around that format separately.

Verify before you commit

The 404 Checker validates each URL with fast HEAD requests and confirms a valid image MIME type, which helps you avoid links that return HTML error pages dressed up as images. The Advanced Image Filter then lets you preview and bulk-select, so you can eyeball the set and confirm only JPGs and PNGs remain before downloading.

A reliable JPG/PNG-only routine

  1. Set the file-type filter to JPEG and PNG only.
  2. Add IF-URL Contains/Not Contains rules to catch mislabeled links.
  3. Use on-download Convert to rescue WebP sources as JPG or PNG.
  4. Preview, then download, using ZIP for large batches.

It all runs locally in your browser, so nothing is uploaded. When you want to download only JPG or PNG every single time, install Bulk Image Downloader From URL List and let the filters and converter keep your folder to two formats.