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:
- 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!
- Juno ( @Juno@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
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.
I never used download managers but since a while I do : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/yt-dlp#Faster_downloads
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.
yt-dlp is pretty much the authoritative solution for this these days.
Has a bit of a learning curve, but JDownloader 2 is all I have used for many, many years. I can’t speak to IDM or how it looks in comparison.
I did a lot of research, but I couldn’t find any up-to-date, open source software that works with the browser. How sad it is that open source alternatives have not been created for some applications for all these years. JDownloader seems nice, but there is no official Firefox add-on.
What would you need an addon for? If you enable the clipboard monitor, jdownloader automatically adds all downloads it finds from any link you copy.
Edit: If you don’t like the clipboard monitoring you can also use the Open With addon to explicitly add links.
You hace that image inline, if you add a linebreak before it, it will render normally on mobile clients :D
You’re probably better off using dedicated websites for each site you need to download videos from.
They are usually ridden with ads, but it’s not a problem if you use uBlock Origin or similar addons
That’s what I’m doing right now, but not every video platform has its own dedicated web downloader.
Maybe a yt-dlp gui? Parabolic works great and can also use aria2 for speeding up the download