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Hello everyone! I want to ask some recommendation of open source alternative to IDM with these feature:

  • Automically capture link from browser (especially Firefox)
  • Compact layout like IDM, no excessive theme
  • Still maintained
  • No silly "freemium" like FileCentipede
  • Video download indicator on browser, I mainly download videos from YT, NicoNicoDouga, Bilibili, Facebook Videos, Instagram, etc. Similar to: Video download indicator on browser
  • Properly detect non Latin character file name

I already research some options, but I asking directly to community might surface interesting underrated programs.

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

May I ask what you use a download manager for these days?

I'm an older internet user myself, I remember using idm for my connection dropping on dial up and it being able to resume without issue. Now though it seems I wouldn't need it as I download things without much issue.

[–] nasi_goreng 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mainly video from various sites via video detection, like YouTube, PeerTube, Bilibili, Instagram, Facebook Videos, NicoNicoDouga, etc.

I tried various FOSS downloader in the past, and it often failed detect any video, or even doesn't even have that feature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

yt-dlp is pretty much the authoritative solution for this these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I never used download managers but since a while I do : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/yt-dlp#Faster_downloads