Download Settings: ZIP, Folders, Order

Where the files actually land

Grabbing images is only half the job. The other half is making them land somewhere organized instead of dumped into a single folder with cryptic names. In Bulk Image Downloader From URL List, every task on the options page carries its own download settings, so different jobs can be saved different ways. Here is what each setting controls and when to use it.

Choosing which files download

Under Select Image Formats you tick the file types you want — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF. Any format you leave unchecked is skipped at download time, even if those URLs are sitting in your list. This is a clean way to pull only the formats you care about without editing the URL list itself. Want photos but not animated GIFs? Uncheck GIF and they are filtered out as the task runs.

Packaging and naming the output

Two settings shape how the results are delivered:

Zip — bundles the task’s images into one archive instead of saving loose files. It makes for a clean handoff when you are sending a batch to someone else or archiving it.
Main folder — names the parent folder for the task, so each job has an obvious home.

Building folder structure automatically

For jobs that pull from multiple sources or deep URL paths, manual sorting is a chore. Two options handle it for you:

Domain Based Folders — creates subfolders by source domain. If one task pulls from several sites, the images sort themselves into per-domain folders automatically.
Auto folders from URL — mirrors the URL path segments as nested folders, recreating a site’s structure on disk without you building it by hand.

Between the two, you can turn a flat list of URLs into a tidy folder tree that reflects where the images came from.

Order and scheduling

Respect Order makes filenames follow your list order when you are using sequence-based naming. If the sequence of images matters — frames, steps, paged content — this keeps them numbered in the order you supplied.

Scheduled download lets you set a date and time and run the task later, which is handy for kicking off a heavy batch overnight or off-peak. One important caveat: scheduling and the global queued download do not mix. Disable one before enabling the other, or they will conflict.

Stacking it all together

These settings are per task, so a single download run can include one task zipped into an archive and another sorted into domain folders, each with its own format filter. They also stack with the Download IF URL conditions and the filename constructor, letting you decide which URLs qualify, which formats download, where files land, and what they are named — all within one task. Set them once, save the task, and every future run organizes itself the same way instead of leaving you to clean up afterward.