

DownMan
A modern, low-footprint download manager for Linux - aria2 engine, torrent/magnet, smart media capture (yt-dlp), and browser extensions. Built with Tauri 2 + React.
DownMan News & Activities
Recent activities
himanshu07 added DownMan as alternative to Turbo Download Manager, Advanced Download Manager, Video DownloadHelper and Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui)
himanshu07 added DownMan as alternative to Ant Download Manager, Parabolic and Internet Download Accelerator- himanshu07 liked DownMan
- himanshu07 added DownMan
himanshu07 added DownMan as alternative to Free Download Manager, JDownloader, AB Download Manager and uGet
DownMan information
What is DownMan?
Key Features
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Multi-Protocol Download Acceleration (aria2):
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Multi-connection HTTP/HTTPS and FTP downloads (up to 16 splits per server).
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Full BitTorrent and Magnet link handling.
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Metalink and multi-mirror support with automatic retry handling.
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Smart Media & Video Capture (yt-dlp & ffmpeg):
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Auto-extracts media from 1,800+ supported websites.
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One-click media capture overlay on browser video players (tracks Blob, MSE, and HLS/DASH streams).
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Automatic video/audio merging and stream conversion via ffmpeg.
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Reusable media profiles (codecs, resolutions, subtitles, audio extraction, SponsorBlock, and clip ranges).
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Seamless Browser Companion Bridge:
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Native extensions for Firefox (AMO signed) and Chrome/Chromium (Manifest V3).
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One-click automatic interception of configured file types (ZIP, ISO, EXE, etc.).
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Ephemeral Authenticated Takeover: Safely captures credentialed browser downloads in memory without storing session tokens, cookies, or authorization headers on disk or in logs.
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Site Grabs & Batch Crawling:
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Download whole-page image galleries and media collections.
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Captures rendered DOM resources without triggering redundant secondary server crawls.
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Hierarchical tree view by crawl session with intelligent rate-limit backoff handling (429 / 503).
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Channels, Playlists & Subscriptions:
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Inspect large channels and playlists in bounded pages.
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Subscribed channels/playlists automatically poll into a Review Inbox with duplicate skipping.
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Export collections directly to M3U playlists.
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Queue Management & Automation:
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Granular queue controls: pause, resume, and schedule download windows.
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Automated checksum verification (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512).
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Auto-categorizes completed downloads into dedicated folders (Video, Audio, Images, Documents, Archives, Other).
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Per-download post-completion actions (run custom command, reveal in folder, open file).





