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Due to the developer's preparation for the college entrance exam (Gaokao), project updates are temporarily suspended 😭 Join QQ group 531928387 for latest updates

Tip

If you want to use Ghost-Downloader-3 on Windows 7, please download the version v3.5.8-Portable.

AI-powered next-generation cross-platform multithreaded downloader

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About The Project

• A downloader developed out of personal interest, and my first Python project 😣
• Originally intended to help a Bilibili Uploader with resource integration 😵‍💫
• Features include IDM-like intelligent chunking without file merging, and AI-powered smart boost 🚀
• Thanks to Python's🐍 accessibility, the project will support plugins🧩 in the future to maximize Python's🐍 advantages

Platform	Required Version	Architectures	Compatible
🐧 Linux	glibc 2.35+	x86_64/arm64	✅
🪟 Windows	7 SP1+	x86_64/arm64	✅
🍎 macOS	11.0+	x86_64/arm64	✅

Tip

Arch Linux AUR support: Community-maintained packages ghost-downloader-bin and ghost-downloader-git are now available (Maintainer: @zxp19821005)

Roadmap

• ✅ Global settings
• ✅ More detailed download information
• ✅ Scheduled tasks
• ✅ Browser extension optimization
• ✅ Global speed limit
• ✅ Memory optimization
  • ✅ Upgrade Qt version
  • ✅ Implement HttpClient reuse
  • ✅ Replace some multithreading with coroutines
• ❌ MVC -> MVVM architecture upgrade and plugin support (In progress...see Folk: feature/Plugins)
• ❌ Enhanced task editing (powerful features like binding multiple Clients to one task)
• ❌ Magnet/BT download (Considering libtorrent implementation)

Visit Open issues to see all requested features (and known issues).

Sponsor

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Contributing

Contributions make the open source community an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion, fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the "Enhancement" tag. Don't forget to give the project a star⭐! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Thanks to all contributors who have participated in this project!

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License

Distributed under the GPL v3.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.

Copyright © 2025 XiaoYouChR.

Contact

• E-mail - [email protected]
• QQ Group - 531928387

References

• PyQt-Fluent-Widgets Powerful, extensible and beautiful Fluent Design widgets
• Httpx A fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit
• Aiofiles File support for asyncio
• Loguru A library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python
• Nuitka The Python compiler
• PySide6 The official Python module
• Darkdetect Allow to detect if the user is using Dark Mode on
• pyqt5-concurrent A QThreadPool based task concurrency library

Acknowledgments

• @zhiyiYo Provided great help for this project!
• @一只透明人- Tested almost every version since Ghost-Downloader-1！
• @Sky·SuGar Created the project banner！