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XDM - Xtreme Download Manager
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Supports ripping media from sites
XDM has the ability to rip files (MP4, AVI, webm, etc.) from media sites like Youtube or Vimeo. Unfortunately, audio streaming sites like Bandcamp or Soundcloud don't seem to work with this feature.
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Horrific project management!
There are no versioned source tarballs, no build documentation or build system, and the binaries seem to be built from a private repository as the source code does not reflect the changes.
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Supports multiple download queues
With XDM you can set up a number of download queues, both scheduled and unscheduled, to give you better control over what batch of files gets downloaded when.
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Uses download acceleration techniques
XDM intelligently and dynamically segments files as they're being downloaded, allowing it to use multiple threads per file. XDM also uses connection reuse to cut back on the amount of time it takes to establish a connection with a given server.
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Built in scheduler
XDM's scheduler allows you to set a specific time for XDM to begin downloading, and then disconnect or shut down your computer when it's finished.
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Integrated with a number of browsers
XDM is integrated with Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, and any other Chromium or Firefox clone. This integration has you installing an extension on your browser that redirects all downloads to be handled by XDM rather than the browser itself.
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Resumes interrupted downloads
If you have a power outage, your internet disconnects, or your download is otherwise interrupted, XDM will be able to resume from where it left off just fine.
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XDM is very fast for download files
XDM download speed is very fast because the internet speed on XDM is more optimized than other download managers.
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It can get the download link without the need for other tools
Through the browser integration extension it is able to capture multimedia download link by itself - while other download managers need the link to be sent to them.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
Protocol Support::
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP
Browser Support:
Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium
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JDownloader 2
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Click and Load
Jdownloader can crawl all links and find downloadable content based on those links, very helpful to download entire website content, video playlist, or hidden content too.
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Regular installation tries to install Adware along with program
Oughta look for the ad-ware free installer. Dubious.
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Advanced packaging system
You can pack files into packages for better file management.
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Not safe
It seems like VirusTotal has detected something with a scan. : https://www.virustotal.com/es-ar/file/c3467621d7f2479bac6fba7afae7b32bc5f3b25f61c562543ab498cdd9c5e33c/analysis/1550301403/ .
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Open-source
There is no limitation.
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Apparently not fully open source
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Supports multiple parallel streams
It means you can download any stream source such as youtube or similar video site with options to choose its quality and filetype.
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ULTRA extreme file fragmentation
There is no file size allocation protocol to prevent file fragmentation. And declared that there is no plan to fix it.
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Captcha recognition
You can input captcha on some free file hosting sites directly on Jdownloader.
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Has ads
Which is on by default but can be disabled in advanced setting.
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Auto-extracts archives
No need to manually extract your downloaded archives, while Jdownloader can automatically extract them for you.
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Captcha solving requires Browser extension which spies on you
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Auto-saves to configured folder
Automatically save files with certain filenames to certain preconfigured folders.
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Resource intensive
It is a Java application so you will always having the JavaVM(Java virtual machine) running alongside.
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Batch import links
Helps to batch download files.
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Cross-platform
Because JDownloader runs on Java, any platform that can run Java, can run JDownloader.
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aria2
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Small memory footprint
Due to aria2 being a CLI only tool it uses very little memory.
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No native graphical user interface
While there is a web-based GUI, there is no native interface.
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Supports multiple download protocols
Has support for lots of download protocols including BitTorrent, Metalink, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
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No HTTP/2 support
While the developer of aria2 is developing nghttp2 library, aria2 has no support for http2.
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Remote control over simple standartized RPC
XML or JSON-based RPCs can be used to control aria2 remotely with both APIs completely documented. Simplest client that uploads torrent to be downloaded is 3 Python lines long (no 3rd-party libraries, only stdlib). Run aria2c --help=#rpc to see more.
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Ugly interface
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Third parties offer a clean web interface
Some web interfaces consist of pure HTML+JS, no server-side needed (except aria2c of course). It uses the same RPC that can work even over WebSockets.
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Confusing to use
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Free and open source
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License:
GPL
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