Advanced Feature: Domain Rules

Advanced Feature: Domain Rules

What can I do with Domain Rules?

Using Domain Rules, you can effectively shape and customize download management.
Exemplaric use-cases:

• Download all items of a specific host with a fixed amount of e.g. 10 connections while your global chunk setting may be lower/higher
• Allow specific items to allow to exceed the globally configured max simultaneous downloads limit
• Allow more/less simultaneous downloads with specific accounts
• Download all files with a specific file extension e.g. ".mp4" with more chunks than others

Where do I find Domain Rules?

Advanced Settings -> GeneralSettings.domainrules

The above are just examples.
You can combine all markers and add finer rules this way.

Typically you will either use them to limit all downloads of one host or allow exceeding the global number of simultaneous downloads for one host.
These rules will not magically speed-up your downloads!

Example json structure of such rules:

[
  {
    "accountPattern": null,
    "domainPattern": ".*jdownloader\\.org",
    "filenamePattern": null,
    "maxChunks": -15,
    "maxSimultanDownloads": 20,
    "pluginPattern": null,
    "allowToExceedTheGlobalLimit": false,
    "enabled": true
  }
]

Example rule: allow all hosts to exceed the global limit:

[ {
"domainPattern" : ".+",
"enabled" : true,
"maxSimultanDownloads" : 21,
"allowToExceedTheGlobalLimit" : true
} ]

Example rule: limit a single host to max. 1 download:

[ {
"domainPattern" : "jdownloader\\.org",
"enabled" : true,
"maxSimultanDownloads" : 1,
"allowToExceedTheGlobalLimit" : false
} ]

Explanation of all available fields:

Important notes:

You cannot exceed any plugin limits using such rule.

If a plugin has a fixed connection limit of "max 5 chunks" and you setup a rule that wants to force 10, the plugins' max value will be used instead.