MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader
Direct links from Microsoft's CDN. No ads. No registration.
Start new thread

MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader - Direct links from Microsoft's CDN. No ads. No registration.

by•
Microsoft's own download page makes you pass a browser check first, and most third-party ISO sites bundle ads or unwanted installers. MSDL replicates Microsoft's own session flow to hand you the exact same signed CDN link, directly — no account, no ads, no browser gate. It ships two ways: a web app for quick lookups and a CLI (msdl) that runs the fetch from your own machine — useful since Microsoft rate-limits server-side traffic. Fully open source, self-hostable, no account or ads either way.

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Maker
📌
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built MSDL because I was tired of Microsoft's own download page making you jump through a browser check before it'd give you a link — and every third-party alternative I found bundled ads or a random installer wrapper around it. It replicates the same session flow Microsoft's page itself uses, so you get the identical signed CDN link, just without the browser gate. The interesting part of building this: Microsoft started blocking our server's IP range outright (standard anti-scraping policy on their end, not a bug). Rather than fight it, I rebuilt the core as a CLI that runs the same lookup from your machine instead – which can't be blocked the same way, since it's not a rentable trend to just block residential IPs. Every CLI run optionally shares the link back to warm the web app's cache too, so the two reinforce each other. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's hit Microsoft's rate limits doing this manually before.