Record live streams as they air
Records M3U8 live streams as they play, with real-time decryption. Works on desktop and Android.
The only downloader you need.
A downloader that sniffs page media, records live streams, and replaces five tools. Fast, free, and open source.
Fast where it matters.
Every downloader is fast on a good connection. The real test is a bad one.
- faster at most, when the server or the link is the bottleneck
- 2.9×faster at most, when the server or the link is the bottleneck
- test downloads completed
- 6/6test downloads completed
- tests where it was fastest
- 5/6tests where it was fastest
One run each, home broadband, equal connection counts. Read the test log
See it. Sniff it. Download it.
The extension watches the page, finds the stream behind the player, hands it to the desktop app, and gets out of the way.
A button where you are already looking
A download control sits on the video itself. No quality cap, no 720p ceiling.
Everything on the page, listed
Video, audio, images, HLS and DASH streams. Open the popup and take what you want.
Straight into the desktop app
No copying links between windows. The extension scouts, the desktop engine does the work.
One app instead of five.
Most people juggle a download manager, a torrent client, a stream ripper, a video parser, and a command-line tool. Ghost Downloader replaces all of them.
- HTTPSmart chunking, no merge step
- BitTorrentMagnet links and .torrent files
- FTPPlain and over TLS
- M3U8On demand and live
- MPEG-DASHAdaptive streams
- eD2kThe old network, still served
Purpose-built parsers
YouTube and Bilibili with clip selection, up to 4K HDR, subtitles, playlists and multi-part episodes. GitHub and HuggingFace with mirror acceleration.
Same engine on your phone
Live M3U8 recording and background downloads. Everything the desktop does, your phone does too.
Get Ghost Downloader
Five tools in one. Free and open source.
App
Browser extension