giantpinkrobots/varia
Download manager that supports regular downloads, torrents and videos
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 68 days ago, with 30 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 56% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a download manager supporting regular files, torrents, and video/audio streams using aria2 and yt-dlp as backends.
- Offers a unified, cross-platform GUI frontend that integrates multiple download protocols and video extraction tools seamlessly.
- Use for managing and accelerating large file downloads on Linux or Windows with a user-friendly GTK4 interface.
- Use for downloading and organizing torrent files alongside direct downloads without switching applications.
- Use for extracting and downloading videos or audio streams from online platforms using yt-dlp integration.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Weak copyleft: changes to the licensed code itself must be shared when you distribute it, but code that merely uses it can stay under your own license.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Download manager for files, torrents and videos
Varia is a download manager for Linux and Windows that supports regular files as well as torrents and video/audio streams. It is a frontend for aria2 and yt-dlp.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
104+7
Open issues
57-4
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| giantpinkrobots/varia | 1.9K | — | 46 | 68 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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