Comments on: Ancestry Finder Download Tool

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:49:37 +0000

Thank you very much for this very useful utility it saved me a ton of time and well worth the time required to set everything up.

Mark

By: John

John — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:31:18 +0000

The html code on the original 23andme AF page doesn’t have any data in it – just that list of people and their IDs, so there’s no way to tell whom you share segments with.
When I get back to massaging my csv data, I’ll see if I can come up with a simple way to check that in the imported data sheet. Perhaps comparing your own csv results and then filtering other rows based on your own non-sharers.
I started using a nice filtering interface I wrote for some Engineering data analysis that might port over for this purpose with some tweaks…

By: Kasandra

Kasandra — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:15:51 +0000

Great Help!

I had already macroed bringing my shared matches to the top and shrinking the pesky AJ columns. This makes it a few button pushes total to get what I want. Thanks!

The only suggestion I would make is that you can delete the line for peeps you are sharing with but don’t have anything in common with prior to turning it into an html doc.

Thanks a lot!
Kasa

By: John

John — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:05:35 +0000

Hi Robert,
You’re Welcome!

Luckily I had seen that same error when I was testing things out and that should be easy to work around: What I believe is happening is that you are not logged into 23andme in Firefox.
I would open a new tab in Firefox and go directly 23andme and log back in, then re-run the DownThemAll! steps.

More info on what happened:
If you are not logged into 23andme when you run the DownThemAll! steps, as the add-on tries to access those data file links, the 23andme site redirects your request to a login page – once for each file it is trying to download.

So, instead of getting the data file, when hitting the first link DownThemAll! downloads the “signin_001.htm” web page. Then when it tried to access the 2nd link it did the same thing and tried to download another copy of “signin_001.htm”.

So, DownThemAll! was asking if you wanted to overwrite the one you already had.

.JT.

By: Robert P

Robert P — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:54:25 +0000

John,

Thanks for developing the excel file and downloading tool. I came to your blog after seeing your post on the Triangulation thread at 23andme. I have followed the steps and I have a question about downloading all the links with Down Them All. I get a message that says: File name conflict!

“A file named “signin.htm” already exists. What do you want to do with download “https://www.23andme.co…….

The choices are:
Rename into “signin_001.htm”
Overwrite existing file
Skip/Cancel

Which option should I select?

Thanks