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Hydra Download Manager

Multi-source download accelerator

WHO USES ITPeople who often download large files (ISOs, datasets) · Server and CLI users · App developers

Install to use

Multi-connection download manager: desktop GUI, browser add-ons, wget/curl-compatible CLI

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Hydra Download Manager desktop window: a category tree (Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs, Video) on the left, a download list with one paused and one completed item, and Scheduler / Start Queue toolbar buttons
Hydra Download Manager desktop window: a category tree (Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs, Video) on the left, a download list with one paused and one completed item, and Scheduler / Start Queue toolbar buttons
Hydra Download Manager desktop window: a category tree (Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs, Video) on the left, a download list with one paused and one completed item, and Scheduler / Start Queue toolbar buttons

TESIGN TAKE

An open-source IDM-style download manager on three OSes, with the licence split so the engine alone can be embedded elsewhere.

INSTALL

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
GPL-3.0
USAGE
Use freely. Release your source if you redistribute (copyleft).
LANGUAGE
Rust
PLATFORM
windows · macos · linux · cli
ACTIVITY
last commit 1 day ago () · latest pre-release v0.5.1-rc () · 26 releases
COMMUNITY
9 contributors · 19 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
SOURCES
GitHub
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
PRODUCTIVITY

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

The Rust engine splits a download across multiple connections and independent mirrors and re-assigns ranges from slow peers to fast ones (range stealing). The same engine ships as a wget/curl-compatible CLI (a static musl build that runs on any Linux distribution) and as a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, with Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons and Safari extensions handing downloads over. It reads Metalink 3/4 documents to pick up mirror lists, sizes and hashes, and installs via one-line install.sh/install.ps1 scripts, Homebrew, PPA, COPR, AUR or AppImage.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • Because hydra-core and libhydra (the C ABI) are dual-licensed MIT/Apache-2.0, you can embed the download engine in Android, iOS, Go or Flutter apps; in server scripts it drops in where wget or curl was.

WHO IT'S FOR

People who often download large files (ISOs, datasets)
GUI plus browser extensions that hand over downloads
Server and CLI users
wget/curl-compatible commands, static build, Metalink mirror merging
App developers
embed the engine via libhydra (MIT/Apache-2.0)

START IN 5 MINUTES

# curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ja7ad/hydra/main/install.sh | bash   # macOS / Linux (GUI bundle; append -s -- --cli for CLI only)
# irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ja7ad/hydra/main/install.ps1 | iex   # Windows PowerShell
# brew install ja7ad/tap/hydra
# hydra https://example.com/archive.tar.gz
# hydra -x 8 https://example.com/largefile.iso

CAVEATS

  • Licence: the CLI binary is GPL-3.0-or-later; the hydra-core, hya-net and hya-ffi libraries are MIT OR Apache-2.0 (repository shows GPL-3.0). The macOS app is not notarized yet, so Gatekeeper may block it; Linux desktop builds need glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, RHEL 9 and newer). On Ubuntu, apt install hydra gives THC-Hydra, a different program — install hydra-download-manager instead. Free.

RECEIPT

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SOURCES
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