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