Beginners and Advanced Users
First of all, there are beginners, who just want the stock/FOREX quotes, and do not care about extras. And there are advances users, who want more. As the result, the Stock Downloader has two interfaces, one for each category of users.

Beginners
Stock Downloader comes with two configuration files, one for downloading the Intraday stock and FOREX quotes, and another for downloading day end stock quotes. These configuration files are using the Yahoo stock quotes server.

You will be able to add/remove symbols you want to download data for, to specify the start date / end date for the day end quotes, and start time / end time for the intraday quotes. Then you click start and wait. The rest of work is done for you automatically.

Additionally, advanced configuration files for beginners are included in the package, making it possible to draw price tables and price charts, as new data become available.

Advanced Users
As was already mentioned, the program can download and parse any or almost any file, available through the HTTP protocol. Stock Downloader comes with the preconfigured beginners settings, that allow to retrieve quotes from the Yahoo, as this is probably the most reliable and easy to use service.

Using the programs built-in language, you can download and parse pages from other sources, for example, you can extract some specific indexes or even the data that have little to do with the stock market, like the up-to-date price of a Barby doll. Then you can incorporate this information into your data files and use whatever analysing software you want.

You also have an access to math, graphics and much more. For example, you can download 1 minute quotes, and draw the price chart, as new data become available.

You can also perform some additional tasks, like data import-export, data transformations and so on.