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AI-powered next-generation cross-platform multithreaded downloader

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Features

IDM-style intelligent chunking⚡ without requiring file merging, plus AI smart acceleration 🚀
Frees UI resources when minimized to tray🍃 — minimal memory footprint in the background
Supports HTTP, Magnet / BT, FTP, M3U8, MPEG-DASH, eD2k and more 🌐
Emulates real-browser TLS fingerprints🥷 so downloads are less likely to be blocked by anti-bot checks
Parses YouTube▶️ and Bilibili videos — playlists, up to 4K/HDR, subtitles and login supported
Dedicated parsers for GitHub🐙 releases and HuggingFace🤗 models with mirror acceleration
Records M3U8 live streams📺 with real-time decryption🔓, fully supported on Android as well
The companion browser extension🦊 sniffs page media, takes over browser downloads, and controls tasks without leaving the browser
aria2-compatible RPC interface🔌 — third-party tools can push tasks directly
Tasks can be paused, edited✏️ (URL, headers, proxy) and resumed without losing progress
A complete Android version📱 with background downloading and completion notifications 🔔

About The Project

A downloader built out of passion, and my first Python project 😣
It was originally created to help a Bilibili creator integrate resources 😵‍💫
Thanks to Python's🐍 accessibility, this project will open plugin🧩 support in the future (plugin API is still being stabilized...)

Platform	Required Version	Architectures	Compatible
🐧 Linux	`glibc 2.35+`	`x86_64`/`arm64`	✅
🪟 Windows	`10+`	`x86_64`/`arm64`	✅
🍎 macOS	`13.0+`	`x86_64`/`arm64`	✅
🤖 Android	`10.0+`	`arm64-v8a`	✅

[!WARNING] Qt 6.6+ no longer supports CPUs without the AVX instruction set.

[!TIP] Arch Linux AUR support: Community-maintained packages ghost-downloader-bin and ghost-downloader-git are now available (Maintainer: @zxp19821005)

Screenshots

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Roadmap

❌ Make the plugin API public
❌ Enhanced task editing (powerful features like binding multiple Sessions to one task)

Visit Open issues to see all requested features (and known issues).

Sponsor

	Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, with certificates by SignPath Foundation

Contributing

Contributions make the open source community an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion, fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the "Enhancement" tag. Don't forget to give the project a star⭐! Thanks again!

Fork the Project
Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
Open a Pull Request

Thanks to all contributors who have participated in this project!

Translation Contributors

[!TIP] If you'd like to help translate Ghost Downloader, welcome to join the Crowdin project: ghost-downloader

_XiaoYouChR
_{14249 words}

_i0ntempest
_{1988 words}

_ReM2812
_{1010 words}

_Dima88888
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License

Distributed under the GPL v3.0 License. Open LICENSE for more details.

Contact

[!IMPORTANT] Welcome to join the Ghost Downloader user group: 756042420

E-mail - XiaoYouChR@qq.com

References

aioftp Ftp client/server for asyncio
cat-catch Browser Resource Sniffing Extension
desktop-notifier Python library for cross-platform desktop notifications
FFmpeg A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
goed2k The eD2k download daemon behind Ghost Downloader's eD2k support
libtorrent An efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation
loguru A library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python
m3u8 Python m3u8 parser
mpegdash MPEG-DASH MPD parser
N_m3u8DL-RE Cross-platform DASH/HLS/MSS download tool powering Ghost Downloader's M3U8 support
Nuitka The Python compiler
PyQt-Fluent-Widgets Powerful, extensible, and elegant Fluent Design-style widget library
PySide6 The official Python module
QuickJS-NG A small and embeddable JavaScript engine
uvloop Ultra fast asyncio event loop
winloop An alternative to uvloop for Windows
wreq An ergonomic Python HTTP client with TLS fingerprint emulation
yt-dlp A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Acknowledgments

@zhiyiYo is amazing and provided a lot of help for this project.
@空糖_SuGar created the project banner.