Top 5 Python download-manager Projects

persepolis

16 5,994 8.4 Python

Persepolis Download Manager is a GUI for aria2.

Project mention: Password-stealing Linux malware served for 3 years and no one noticed | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-12

This is installed by adding a shady repository to your apt sources.list...
How is this a supply chain attack? My official debian repository have never been breached so far.
This is no different from downloading an .exe of a shady website and running it.
Also: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=download+manager... lists:
• uget: https://sourceforge.net/projects/urlget/
• kget: https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/kget/
• persepolis: https://persepolisdm.github.io/
why use "Free Download Manager"? Is this targeting new-comers from windows?

tubearchivist

153 4,043 9.3 Python

Your self hosted YouTube media server

Project mention: Self-Hosted Is Awesome | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-13

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
pooch

1 570 7.7 Python

A friend to fetch your data files
4chan-downloader

1 263 4.1 Python

Python3 script to continuously download all images/webms of multiple 4chan thread simultaneously - without installation
NewPipePlaylistExtractor

5 14 4.8 Python

Download your NewPipe created playlists as mp3, wav or other codec and listen to it offline.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).