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Jdownloader has the aesthetic of sketchy windows freeware from a bygone era. I tried it once, then uninstalled it a minute later. youtube-dl also integrates well with other tools or autonomous workflows; for example mpv invokes it to stream media from the web without downloading it to the disk.

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it is sketchy windows freeware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader, https://support.jdownloader.org/Knowledgebase/Article/View/a...

I always run it under a separate user account because it looks so sketchy

I thought it was sketchy by association. It used to be always recommended by sketchy pirate sites to bypass the download limits on sketchy one-click-hosters

Huh, I thought it was properly FOSS albeit with a plea for subscriptions, but that's much worse. Evidently my gut instinct was right.

I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion and I don't see a web interface. I haven't dug through it much, but poking around inside the "trunk" module, I see files with headers that say they're GPLv3.

EDIT: Here's a Git mirror of trunk [2]. See, e.g., this file [3].

[1]: https://svn.jdownloader.org/projects/jd [2]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader [3]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader/blob/master/src/jd/gui...

> I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion

What has the license with the chosen version control system to do?

The emphasis was more on the "no web interface" part. In 2020, I feel like Subversion is significantly less common than git, so having to install SVN + possibly learn SVN commands is a moderate barrier to browsing the code.

By the way git is an excellent SVN command-line client, though it doesn't help with the learning curve.

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