Copita is a free, open-source download manager. Paste any link — a video,a playlist, anm3u8 stream, a Google Drive folder, a magnet —and it works out what it is and downloads it fast, in parallel, with resume. Runs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Every downloader I tried was good at exactly one thing. One for videos
and nothing else. One for file hosts, but a pain to use. Another for
HLS streams. And a shared Google Drive folder still meant downloading
40 files one click at a time.
I wanted a single box: paste anything — a video, a playlist, an .m3u8,
a Drive folder, a magnet, or just some page with a video buried in it —
and it works out what it is and downloads it. Fast, resumable, running
on my own machine so nothing goes through someone else's server.
That's Copita:
- Video — 1,000+ sites, playlists (each item its own file), time-range
clips, 4K/HDR/60fps
- Audio — full quality, with cover art and tags
- Streams — HLS (.m3u8) with AES-128, DASH (.mpd), remuxed to clean MP4
- Cloud — Google Drive / MEGA folders pulled recursively; MediaFire,
Dropbox, Gofile, pixeldrain and more, with the ad-gates handled
- Torrents — real BitTorrent engine, DHT, resume
- Direct files — up to 32 parallel connections, byte-accurate resume
- Anything else — it loads the page and finds the real file itself
There's a web UI, a CLI, a native macOS app, and a browser extension
that puts a download button on any video. Free and open source,
GPL-3.0, no account.
The hard part wasn't the downloading — it was the "paste anything and
it just works" routing, and keeping up with sites that break their
extraction every other week.
Repo: https://github.com/sstoicsnapsho...
If you've got a link that breaks your current downloader, throw it at
this and tell me what happens.