First of all, I want to clarify that I have 0 relationship with the development of this project and I am simply a Linux user who always wanted something similar to IDM and I want to share my discovery with more people, with the hope that this program will become more famous. .
Now, File Centipede as its own Github description mentions is a Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client.
For those who have used IDM, File Centipede serves exactly the same purpose and has the typical features of any download manager, including torrent file support, plus it’s open source and works extremely well in my experience.
File Centipede has a browser extension (Chromium/Firefox) that allows you to download almost any video from the Internet, in the style of IDM, a little icon appears on top of the video frame to click and download. And also, if you have this extension installed, File Centipede intercepts downloads from your browser, and personally I am very surprised that it can intercept downloads from sites like MegaDB or Vimm(dot)net, when programs like JDownloader, FDM, XDM could not. intercept or simply downloaded an .html.
Now, not all that shines is gold and I want to include something that you are going to run into if you try the program. File Centipede is a program that has been in development for a little less than a year, and has absolutely 0 ads, but when you go to their downloads, you will find that there are two versions, a “Premium Edition” and a “Free Edition”, the Premium Edition is the “Most Updated” version, it has more functions and capabilities, but after a while you will get a pop-up telling you that you need an “Activation Code”, and it is important to mention that the program does not stop working if you just ignore the pop-up, it works exactly the same but at times you will have that pop-up. If you wanted to buy the activation code, the developer allows you to pay a lifetime version for $28, or you can pay $0.02 for one day, that is, if you pay $1 you will have an activation code that will work for 50 days, and the developer makes it clear that all purchases are simply to motivate him to continue working on File Centipede and they will be refunded. And he warns that once the project reaches 100k stars on Github the Premium version will become free.
In case you don’t want or can’t pay the activation code, the dev releases a key each day (usable by everyone, if I use it you can too) on his official site every day that eliminates that pop-up.
Well, that being said, I hope someone finds File Centipede as useful as I do, personally I haven’t seen any performance hit in the browser if anyone is concerned.
I’m using Motrix but I can’t figure out how to set up the Firefox extension so that it will auto-capture download requests and send them to Motrix
Same, Motrix auto-capture extensions work perfectly on Chromium browsers but not on Firefox.
Nice knowing that I’m not the only one
Just tested it and it works great, pretty useful and simple. I’ve never really used either IDM nor JD2 but I might check them out now.
If this doesn’t break in a few weeks I’ll probably pay for the premium to support the developer.
I try this one because IDM cannot download one video that I need that why I give this one try and the same results. So far it’s not bad but I still prefer IDM over this
Maybe you can tell developer on his Github of the site where you couldn’t download the video, he usually answer.
Personally I use kget, from brief look on the github page the UI is very similar
Does kget work well? I tried it in the past, but it never really captured any link I gave it.
tried, doesn’t work for ed2k and it is proprietary software. Will pass
Persepolis and xdm are 2 other good alternative to IDM. This one looks nice too. I will probably try it. thanks
Looks like an interesting project. But does it really replace JD2? Can anyone confirm if it plays well with file hostess like mega? Can it extract audio from YouTube? Because if yes, we’d have a winner here.
My main reason to use JD2 is it’s great experience with multihosters and link lists. It automatically checks all hosters for a multilink and will down load each file from an available hoster. That’s something a JD2 replacement would need to have, and (without having looked at the repo at all) I doubt that’s been replicated within a year.
I’m confused by the refund statement? Why would the purchases be refunded?
Guessing English isn’t the first language here (a few mistakes), and what he probably meant was that refund requests would be honoured, rather than that all purchases would as a rule be refunded.
I thought that too and it is not quite clear on their page, but it seems to me that the developer means that purchases will be refunded only if you want to once the project reaches 100k on Github. In my opinion sincerely if I donate today I doubt that the day the project reaches 100k I would ask for a refund, and anyway I would never ask for a refund if I want to support its development.
