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Dark Mode
ArrowDL provides a light-on-dark color scheme (also called black mode, dark mode, dark theme or night mode).
Flat Design Theme
New Feature: Flat Design icons and platform style choice
Styles
ArrowDL provides an option to change the platform style (ex: Windows, Windows Vista, Fusion, MacOS, KDE…). It turns the interface to different OS styles.
To try it, go to Preferences > Interface > Style and Icons.
Torrent Widget Enhanced
The torrent widget (which appears when you download a .torrent file or magnet link) has been improved.
Tables are now sortable. If you click on the table header, it sorts the items by the column.
From now on, the torrent widget shows a piece-by-piece progress bar for the global torrent file in the Info tab. The same kind of bars present the peer’s available pieces under the Peers tab.
The Peer tab also displays the peer flags as emojis:). If you let the mouse above, a tool tip presents more details.
The tab keeps the former connections in italic, you can filter them through the mouse’s context menu.
The Piece Map tab now shows the piece map of the torrent.
Referring Page
ArrowDL offers a new feature: Referring Page.
Proxy Server
ArrowDL can use a proxy server now.
A proxy server sits between your computer and the internet. Acting as a bridge between ArrowDL or your web browser and internet services like websites and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, a proxy server can potentially make your internet more private and secure. Here’s how to set up ArrowDL so you can use a proxy server to your advantage.
Introducing playlist downloads
ArrowDL can now download playlists from Youtube and other video stream sites.
To do so, use the same Wizard as usual:
- Click File > Download Streams…
The wizard will detect if the URL refers to a single video stream or a playlist.
Open ArrowDL when you click on .torrent file or magnet link
When you click a magnet link, or download a .torrent file, you might want to open them with ArrowDL.
Introducing Torrents
ArrowDL version 2.0.0 is now able to download .torrent files.
Urls Batch Edition
A Smart Editor for massive Urls edition!
ArrowDL version 1.7.4 provides a tool to modify the URL for a list of downloads.
Rename Tool
ArrowDL version 1.7.4 provides a tool to rename a list of downloads.
Releases
Happy New Year 2024!
Thanks to all the upgrades in 2023, 2024 looks brighter!
C++20 offers more simplification and abstraction, Qt6 offers better widgets, OpenSSL 3.0 offers better security, and LibTorrent offers better functions. ArrowDL will be improved a lot, for sure :)
New Name Announcement
As part of the continued development of the project, we are excited to announce the project will change its name to ArrowDL.
ArrowDL stands for Arrow Downloader.
We have changed the name to reflect our ambition for expansion. This is an exciting time for our team and our users. The name change represents an opportunity to do more for our users, offering a simple and user-friendly download tool, and of course gain a better visibility. The new name takes effect on January 1 of the coming new year.
New Release: version 2.0.0
Version 2.0.0 is now available. Changes mostly concern UI, especially with a new Home button that introduce and simplify the type of download.
There are now 4 categories of downloadable things:
- Web Page Content: takes a webpage URL as input, and downloads its content: media, links…
- Single file / Batch of files: takes a file URL as input, or a Regular Expression representing web links, and downloads this list.
- Video/Audio Stream: takes an address of Youtube or similar site and transforms the video stream into a media file.
- Magnet Link, Torrent: downloads the content of a .torrent file.
Introducing Streams
ArrowDL version 1.7.0 is now able to download streams, from Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and other video sites.
New Release: version 1.7.0
Version 1.7.0 is available.
New Release: version 1.4.2
Version 1.4.2 is available.
Introducing ArrowDL
ArrowDL is a rewrite of the legacy software DownThemAll! which was an extension for Mozilla Firefox, but whose development stopped around 2016, when Mozilla Firefox migrated to WebExtensions.
ArrowDL is a standalone download manager for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
It aims to work with latest versions of Mozilla Firefox (powered by WebExtensions), and other web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari…).
Developer
Major Upgrade Announcement
Major Upgrade Announcement
During 2022, a lot of refactoring has been done.
The final phase of this refactoring was the move of the deployment process to the Github Actions. This was done yesterday!
Thus, the ArrowDL of 2023 will be better than 2022. It deserves a “version 3.x” to introduces this new era.
yt-dlp replacing youtube-dl
ArrowDL now uses the library yt-dlp, which is a fork of youtube-dl.
Migration to Travis-ci.com
Message for Developer(s)
Great achievement today!
We migrated the build ops from Travis-ci.org to Travis-ci.com successfully.
(after 4 months of reminders ;)
PS: Travis-ci.org is officially inactive since 31st December 2020 ;)
Report an issue
Want to see something else added? Open an issue.
Translations
Translations
Translations
ArrowDL is designed to be usable by everyone including drunk people and 10 years old little guys.
It’s therefore important to us that it is usable outside the English-speaking world.
Like many other open-source projects, we are crowd-sourcing the translation effort, so if you want to help people in your community to be able to play with it in your language, please consider joining the translation effort.
WebExtensions
WebExtensions: Introducing Web Extension
ArrowDL is now compatible with Chrome and Firefox!
The add-on DownRightNow sends data from your web browser to the standalone application ArrowDL.
Urls
Download Urls: copy-paste a list of URLs to download
New Feature: Download Urls
From now on, ArrowDL can download a list of Urls.
Just copy-paste the list of URLs to download in the dialog:
Security
OpenSSL 3.0
After a year of development work, we have finally released ArrowDL powered by OpenSSL v3.