JDownloader
JDownloader simplifies and improves the process of downloading files from sites like YouTube or Mega.
JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, CAPTCHA recognition, and automatic file extraction. It support CCF, RSDF and DLC files.
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JDownloader is a free, open source download manager. It simplifies and improves the process of downloading files from Websites, Cloud-Storage Providers, Social Media Networks and File Hosting Sites.
JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, throttling, resuming, CAPTCHA recognition, and automatic file extraction. It supports Click'n'Load and container files like DLC, RSDF and CCF. A large developer community ensures that current individual page-specific download scripts are kept up to date and valuable time is saved on the basis of the expandable basic framework.
It can also be used as a service on a server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) and controlled via My.JDownloader.Org from a web browser or smartphone.
JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, throttling, resuming, CAPTCHA recognition, and automatic file extraction. It supports Click'n'Load and container files like DLC, RSDF and CCF. A large developer community ensures that current individual page-specific download scripts are kept up to date and valuable time is saved on the basis of the expandable basic framework.
It can also be used as a service on a server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) and controlled via My.JDownloader.Org from a web browser or smartphone.
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Video & Movies • File Sharing • Photos & Graphics • Audio & Music • News & Books • Web BrowsersPlatform details
Mac: Java Runtime Enviroment (jre/jdk) 1.8 or higher required
Windows: Java Runtime Enviroment (jre/jdk) 1.8 or higher required
Linux: Java Runtime Enviroment (jre/jdk) 1.8 or higher required
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- Download videos from Dailymotion
- twitch-downloader
- twitch.tv-downloader
- twitch-download
- picture-grabber
- metalink
- muxing
- usenet-download
- download-hd-videos
- nzb
- image-downloader
- adware
- youtube-playlist-downloader
- Online movies
- vimeo-downloader
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Our users have written 34 comments and reviews about JDownloader, and it has gotten 1176 likes
- Developed by AppWork Gmbh
- Open Source and Free Personal product.
- Subscription that costs between $5 and $12.
- Average rating of 3.6
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No longer viable and far less safe than previous editions. Switched to web interface and or browser plugins requiring for direct tracking of online activity... first, second and or third party. Ditch this and try something else that's safer.
What is unsafe about it?
Reply written more than a year ago
Used to use this but now I'm looking for an alternative because they've introduced some shady stuff into the installer like AVG Antivirus. Also, it seems like VirusTotal has detected something with a scan.
Seriously ?!
I have to wait for half an hour on a file-sharing site to download JDownloader, which "simplifies" downloading from file-sharing sites ?
Genius...
They have a sense of humour :)
Or they want you to experience the pain once more before you're allowed to use JDownloader.
Or, most likely, they make some money off it by taking part in an affiliate program.
Reply written more than a year ago
Strangely enough after installing this, even though I was not asked, my Chrome started searching Bing and next time I run FireFox I find a toolbar?!?! What a load of crap! This is no way to force your users to make you money.
You know how those pesky filehosters like RapidShare always make you wait a minute or so before you can download a file, make you fill out tedious captchas (quite irritating for a 35-part file!), enforce quotas by IP, and overall act like irritating jerks? JDownloader fixes that problem, by serving as an interface between you and the hoster: You give it a bunch of links, it resolves them, checks if they are online, solves the captchas (yeah, the ones that are supposed to keep out automated programs =D), downloads with pause/resume support, packages everything in a nice folder, automatically extracts multi-part archives and so on. You can even give it a password if the archive will be passworded.
Another nifty feature is, if your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address (so that you can change it by power-cycling the modem) then JDownloader can do THAT for you as well, automatically, whenever it detects that your IP's quota is up!
Lastly, if you have premium accounts for some sites, you can give the login info to JDownloader and it will automatically use them as needed. In all, this program is an enormous improvement over just clicking the links and downloading things yourself. However...
It's in Java. Now normally, Java isn't necessarily slow. But for whatever reason, JDownloader tends to take ages to start.
Gets easily confused by HTTP (non-filehoster) downloads, especially if there is some php/redirection business going on. You'll need a separate download manager for that.
The captcha recognition doesn't really do much good, as everyone is switching to reCAPTCHA. The JDownloader devs refuse to even consider adding reCAPTCHA solvers (understandable as they think it will undermine spam protection and so on, but rather hypocritical of them to make an exception for reCAPTCHA), so most of the time you have to enter captchas yourself anyway. Unfortunately there's no way to just fill in captchas in advance either, so you get popups whenever a download is about to start, which can be annoying when it happens while you are playing a full-screen game.
The extraction plugin is not throttled and is very greedy about resources, you will get a mysterious, minutes-long (depending on archive size) slow down whenever JDownloader finishes a set and begins extracting. Very annoying when it messes up a movie you are watching by causing stuttering.
JDownloader is probably one of your best options if you need to download from file hosters despite the above. I recommend checking out Mipony, though: It is pretty much the same thing, except slightly uglier (not that JDownloader's Java UI is beautiful) and much faster (I believe it is in C++, and it shows).