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GUI download managers for Linux

Hi guys,

Do you know any good open source download managers for Linux that are being actively developed? Apart from wget, and yt-dlp, how do you download stuff from the internet? All GUI download managers that support Linux and I've been aware of are either abandoned by their developers or lack features (I mean good browser integration, grabber, etc.) compared to commercial download managers that exist on Winblows.

The following pages list several GUI/console download managers for Linux:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet#Download_managers
https://alternativeto.net/software/internet-download-manager/?platform=linux

Here is the status of some of the download managers that I've tested so far:
  • uGet: It was a reasonably good GTK download manager. Abandoned by the original devs in 2020. There is no active fork of it either!
  • Xtreme Download Manager: As much as I am aware, this is the most feature rich open source GUI download manager for Linux. The latest release from the author of xdman is version 8.0.29. The latest version was released in 2023. I think this is abandoned as well.
  • JDownloader: It's written in Java!  ::) Partially open source with a GPLv3 license. Contains non-free stuffs and malicious Ads.
  • KGet: Download manager for KDE. Only integrates well with the Konqueror web browser.
  • AB Download Manager: I think this is a fairly new download manager. It's written in Kotlin. Lacks features compared to other download managers in this list.
  • Persepolis: This is a GUI front-end for a console-based download manager named aria2. Doesn't have many features compared to the console application that it's written for.

Re: GUI download managers for Linux

Reply #1 –
You might have a look at this new kid on the block, Varia :
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/18djkg6/i_made_a_download_manager_for_gnome/
- https://github.com/giantpinkrobots/varia
- https://news.itsfoss.com/varia-download-manager/

I was already thinking of adding it to the omniverse repo.

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Re: GUI download managers for Linux

Reply #3 –
soundcloud-dl from the AUR, yt-dlp can also download from soundcloud but soundcloud-dl is better because it automatically saves the little thumbnail images and track info for your mp3 player, and has various other soundcloud specific features. It often needs rebuilding after python updates and also it's dependencies, you will know by the module not found warnings. The easiest way with minimal typing I found is just to -Rs soundcloud-dl with your favorite AUR helper then up arrow and edit it to -S soundcloud-dl to reinstall and rebuild them all together, because they are all pretty small packages.  :D  (It is a console app though.)

Re: GUI download managers for Linux

Reply #4 –
Hello,

I sometimes use Clipgrab offered in Appimage :
https://clipgrab.org/download-clipgrab/

But most of the time yt-dl + xclip do the job.

I created a launcher that points to this little script :
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#!/bin/sh
yt-dlp -S 'res:1080' `xclip -o`

Then I just have to highlight or copy (Ctrl+C) the URL and click on my launcher.