Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I built Hongguo Downloader because I kept losing shows I loved. Chinese short-dramas (微短剧 / duanju) are incredibly addictive — 80-100 episodes, each 90 seconds, shot like cinematic TikToks. And now ByteDance is pumping out AI-generated short dramas (AI 短剧) that look shockingly real. It's a massive content wave most of the West hasn't discovered yet. The problem? These dramas vanish constantly. Licensing rotates, catalogs get purged overnight, and suddenly a show you were halfway through is just gone. Streaming apps like DramaBox and ReelShort charge $30-$60 in coin microtransactions per series, and even then you don't actually "own" anything — the videos live locked inside their mobile player. I tried screen recording. It took 2+ hours of real-time playback per series, captured battery icons and notification popups, and output blurry compressed video. Totally unusable. So I built a standalone Windows desktop app that pulls the direct 1080p stream manifests and saves clean, numbered .mp4 files to your PC. No Android emulator (no BlueStacks), no login, no Python scripts. Just paste a link or search a title, click Download, and the entire season lands in your folder in 3-5 minutes. The free tier gives you 2 full drama series every day with zero registration. I wanted the tool to be genuinely useful before asking anyone to pay. I'd love to hear your thoughts — whether it's feature requests, UI feedback, or drama recommendations. What shows should I test with next? 😄

Hongguo Downloader

Download Chinese short-dramas & AI dramas in 1080p MP4

Download Chinese short-dramas & AI dramas in 1080p MP4