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Download projects on GitHub

Download managers and file fetching utilities

As of , the most-starred Download projects on GitHub are ChinaTextbook (83K stars), Motrix (57K stars) and you-get (56.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 36 Download repositories with 662.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was FluxDown, with +67 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+67

FluxDown

zerx-lab/FluxDown · ★ 4.6K

FluxDown is a free, open-source download manager built in Rust that handles HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent, eD2K and HLS/DASH streaming downloads, positioned as a free IDM alternative.

+55

Motrix

agalwood/Motrix · ★ 57K

Motrix is a free, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and magnet links, built as a desktop app with an optional headless server mode.

+46

ebook-treasure-chest

jbiaojerry/ebook-treasure-chest · ★ 20.8K

This is a giant curated index of download links for e-books in Chinese, covering classic literature, business, self-help, lifelong learning, career, and technical books, including most books from apps like Fan Shu (formerly Fan Deng Dushu), WeChat Reading, JD Reading, and Ximalaya.

+41

ChinaTextbook

TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook · ★ 83K

An open-source archive of PDF textbooks for Chinese primary school, middle school, high school and university courses, currently focused mainly on the full math curriculum from grade 1 through university.

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36 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook

    ChinaTextbook

    An open-source archive of PDF textbooks for Chinese primary school, middle school, high school and university courses, currently focused mainly on the full math curriculum from grade 1 through university.

    83K
  2. #2 · agalwood/Motrix

    Motrix

    Motrix is a free, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and magnet links, built as a desktop app with an optional headless server mode.

    57K
  3. #3 · soimort/you-get

    you-get

    You-Get is a tiny command-line utility that downloads media contents — videos, audios and images — from the web, for when there is no other handy way to save them.

    56.9K
  1. 4

    aria2

    43.2Karia2/aria2 · C++

    aria2 is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line download utility that fetches files over HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, and can combine multiple protocols/sources for the same file to maximize bandwidth.

  2. 5

    awesome-english-ebooks

    38.2Khehonghui/awesome-english-ebooks · CSS

    A repository of direct download links for English-language magazines - The Economist (with audio), The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Wired - available in epub, mobi, and pdf formats, updated weekly for free.

  3. 6

    TrackersListCollection

    32.3KXIU2/TrackersListCollection

    A continuously updated collection of public BitTorrent tracker URLs, split into several text files (best, all, HTTP-only, HTTP-free) that you paste into any BT client to speed up downloads.

  4. 7

    lux

    31.8Kiawia002/lux · Go

    Lux is a fast and simple video downloader built with Go — a CLI tool that grabs videos, images and audio from sites like YouTube, bilibili, Douyin, Youku and iQiyi.

  5. 8

    Scoop

    24.7KScoopInstaller/Scoop · PowerShell

    Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows that lets you install apps from the terminal with minimal friction, similar to Homebrew on macOS.

  6. 9

    proxyee-down

    24.6Kproxyee-down-org/proxyee-down · Java

    Proxyee Down is an open-source, free HTTP downloader built on an HTTP proxy layer, offering multi-connection chunked downloads and support for custom HTTP requests, with an extension system for special download needs.

  7. 10

    FileSaver.js

    22Keligrey/FileSaver.js · JavaScript

    FileSaver.js is a client-side JavaScript library that implements the saveAs() interface, letting web apps trigger a file download for data generated right in the browser.

  8. 11

    ebook-treasure-chest

    20.8Kjbiaojerry/ebook-treasure-chest · Python

    This is a giant curated index of download links for e-books in Chinese, covering classic literature, business, self-help, lifelong learning, career, and technical books, including most books from apps like Fan Shu (formerly Fan Deng Dushu), WeChat Reading, JD Reading, and Ximalaya.

  9. 12

    books

    20.3Kprogramthink/books

    A curated collection of e-book recommendations maintained by the Chinese blogger known as 'programthink' (编程随想), spanning many academic disciplines, with each entry pointing to a download source.

  10. 13

    ab-download-manager

    18.6Kamir1376/ab-download-manager · Kotlin

    AB Download Manager is a free, open-source desktop app that manages and organizes your downloads, with faster download speed as its headline feature.

  11. 14

    YoutubeDownloader

    16.5KTyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader · C#

    A desktop app for downloading from YouTube: paste the URL of any video, playlist or channel and save it in the format you choose. It can also search YouTube by keywords for quick look-ups.

  12. 15

    FMHY

    15.2Kfmhy/FMHY

    FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) is a massive curated wiki of free internet resources: streaming, downloading, piracy, adblocking/privacy tools, AI tools, gaming/emulation, and more, hosted at fmhy.net.

  13. 16

    Are-u-ok

    14.3KAUK9527/Are-u-ok

    A download repository of prebuilt third-party plugin packages for iStore — the app store used on OpenWrt routers — with separate package sets for OpenWrt 22.03 and 24.10.

  14. 17

    BBDown

    13.9Knilaoda/BBDown · C#

    BBDown is a command-line downloader for Bilibili videos, written in C#.

  15. 18

    AriaNg

    13.2Kmayswind/AriaNg · JavaScript

    AriaNg is a modern web frontend for aria2, the command-line download utility, making it easier to control via a browser-based UI.

  16. 19

    pytube

    13.2Kpytube/pytube · Python

    A lightweight, dependency-free Python library and command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos — made for scripting downloads instead of grabbing them by hand.

  17. 20

    wechat-article-exporter

    13.1Kwechat-article/wechat-article-exporter · TypeScript

    An open-source batch downloader for WeChat Official Account articles: search any account by keyword and export its posts, including read counts and comment data.

  18. 21

    magnetW

    11.3Kxiandanin/magnetW · JavaScript

    magnetW is a desktop app (built with Electron and Vue) for searching magnet/torrent links; it scrapes results from source sites for personal research use. The project is now deprecated and no longer maintained.

  19. 22

    FileDownloader

    11.1Klingochamp/FileDownloader · Java

    FileDownloader is an Android library for building multi-task file downloads, with breakpoint-resume, multi-thread (multi-connection) downloading per task, and high concurrency support.

  20. 23

    rayburst

    11.1KAnInsomniacy/rayburst · TypeScript

    Motrix Next is a full-featured open-source download manager — a ground-up rewrite of the popular Motrix app, now built on Tauri 2 (Rust) and Vue 3 instead of Electron, supporting HTTP, BitTorrent, ED2K, and Magnet downloads.

  21. 24

    FileCentipede

    10.9Kfilecxx/FileCentipede · C++

    FileCentipede is an all-in-one internet upload/download manager that works as a BitTorrent client, WebDAV client, FTP client, and SSH client, with browser integration for grabbing audio/video from web pages.

  22. 25

    reclip

    10.8Kaverygan/reclip · HTML

    ReClip is a self-hosted web app for downloading videos and audio: paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or any of 1000+ supported sites and save it as MP4 or MP3.

  23. 26

    iptv

    9.6Kvbskycn/iptv · HTML

    This is a repository that automatically collects and verifies free IPTV live-streaming source lists (channel URLs) for Chinese TV, updated every 6 hours.

  24. 27

    yoinks

    6Kpablostanley/yoinks · TypeScript

    yoinks is a terminal tool that downloads videos from YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites — just paste a url and pick a resolution or audio-only mp3.

  25. 28

    JKVideo

    5Ktiajinsha/JKVideo · TypeScript

    JKVideo is a slick third-party Bilibili client built with React Native, offering DASH video playback, real-time danmaku, WBI request signing and live streaming support.

  26. 29

    FluxDown

    4.6Kzerx-lab/FluxDown · Rust

    FluxDown is a free, open-source download manager built in Rust that handles HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent, eD2K and HLS/DASH streaming downloads, positioned as a free IDM alternative.

  27. 30

    vivi-music

    3.7Kvivizzz007/vivi-music · Kotlin

    Vivi Music is an Android app that streams music from YouTube Music with a Material 3 'Material You' interface, offline downloads, synced lyrics, and a fully local, tracker-free design.

  28. 31

    onthespot

    1.8Kots-downloader/onthespot · Python

    OnTheSpot is a free, open-source music downloader written in Python. It pulls tracks from streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, Qobuz and Bandcamp.

  29. 32

    maxurl

    1.6Kqsniyg/maxurl · JavaScript

    Image Max URL (maxurl) is a tool that finds larger or original versions of images and videos, usually by rewriting their URLs. It has built-in support for over 10,000 specific sites plus generic engines like WordPress and MediaWiki.

  30. 33

    hydra

    1.1Kja7ad/hydra · Rust

    Hydra (HDM) is a fast, resilient download manager and accelerator that splits files across multiple connections and mirror sources, with a wget/curl-compatible CLI and a cross-platform desktop GUI.

  31. 34

    overdrive-releases

    609overdriveps5/overdrive-releases

    This repository hosts the official builds of Overdrive, a game store application for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles.

  32. 35

    VioletToolBox

    464Smart-Paocai/VioletToolBox · C#

    VioletToolBox is a Windows desktop toolbox for Android device flashing, rooting, and ROM management, with about 110 functions covering ADB, Fastboot, EDL (9008 mode), and more, aimed at Chinese Android brands like OPPO, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Redmi.

  33. 36

    Beans-Music

    407XIaodou0416/Beans-Music · Swift

    Beans Music is an open-source SwiftUI music player for iOS 15+ that lets you browse, search, and play tracks from NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, and Kugou Music in one native app, alongside local playlists, lyrics, and offline files.

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