Comment by bugake
1 day ago
Much better solution:
Install JDownloader 2. Just copy a link, and JDownloader will pick it up if it's running (otherwise, open it manually).
It not only downloads the file and lets you resume the download, but can also download multiple pieces in parallel.
There's some shady stuff about JDownloader, afaik mainly that building it from source requires some java binaries that don't have their source available anywhere.
There's no doubt JDownloader is impressive but I absolutely hate using it. It feels like an absolute hog. Slow to open, slow to process links, slow to start downloading, insanely slow to extract archives, and for my money it tries to do far, far, far, far too much.
Not that I have issues downloading with ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶f̶o̶x̶ librewolf but what's wrong with just using curl?
The problem is that curl is just as good as librewolf.
it makes up for the lag in user friendliness. I regularly use the feature that grabs the clipboard. then i can copy 30 file links in two minutes and have it download them all sequentially at a slow speed so as to not clog the server. plus it gets updated fast. i've had a site break compatibility and jd2 fix it in under a week.
I found it easier to point my AI at JDownloader's source and have it rebuild the downloaders for certain hosts using python. It works the same without all the bloat.
Isn't there pyLoad already?
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They also do shady things with bundled software in their installer.