ArrowDL

Advanced Setup

Advanced Setup

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Table of Content:

Manual Instructions

  1. First, install the application:

    1. Download ArrowDL portable or installer here

    2. Unzip

  2. Then, install the web extension:

    1. Install ArrowDL add-on on the web browser

    2. Go to the install directory of the Application (ArrowDL), and follow the instructions in ReadMe.txt

    3. Then, to verify the install, go to “Options” in the WebExtension interface in your Web Browser. It should tell you if it’s correctly connected with the Application.


Web Browser Addon

Choose the browser:

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Click here to intall ArrowDL for Mozilla Firefox Click here to intall ArrowDL for Google Chrome Click here to intall… Just kidding

Portable Archives


Download the latest release

The latest release is available here

GitHub release

Choose your plateform

Choose the most relevant version for your computer. The next table explains the differences between the packages.

Windows1

Linux2

MacOS

  • Not available yet

Source Code


Latest release build status

Platform Status
Windows/Linux/MacOS Built with GitHub Actions


Older releases

Click here to see the previous releases

Info

You can read the full documentation at: setvisible /ArrowDL

How it works?

The browser add-on (this extension) sends the links to the open-source standalone application ArrowDL.

Why a standalone application? This download manager is a standalone application, in order to separate this extension’s life cycle from the browser’s life cycle. Moreover a standalone manager provides a lot more features, not limited to the web browser or WebExtensions’ API, so we could implement all the features we imagine.

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to Andy Portmen for the native-client plugin.
  • Thanks to people contributing to Youtube-DL.
  • Thanks to Arvid Norberg and contributors for the libtorrent library.

Contact and support

Hope you like this extension.

You can find contact and support for this application at: setvisible /ArrowDL

Footnotes:

  1. The MSVC version uses the Chromium engine that parses HTML and Javascript. The MinGW version is more basic, it uses Google Gumbo, that parses HTML only, not Javascript. Note: The MSVC version has been decommissioned on Windows, only GCC (aka MinGW) remains. Maintaining 2 builds was really time-consuming. ↩

  2. Prefer the Tarball if you are on Linux. The AppImage can only run ArrowDL, unfortunately the launcher can’t be used here. That’s why the filename is suffixed with ‘_no_launcher’. In other words, your web browser can’t launch the application. ↩