<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigbubba</author><text>Jdownloader has the aesthetic of sketchy windows freeware from a bygone era.  I tried it once, then uninstalled it a minute later.  youtube-dl also integrates well with other tools or autonomous workflows; for example mpv invokes it to stream media from the web without downloading it to the disk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IngvarLynn</author><text>One obvious issue with both these downloaders is lack of proper modularization. Which greatly hinders adoption, I believe. I would expect some kind of plugin system. Naturally, there are attempts to fix that: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;un-def&amp;#x2F;dl-plus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;un-def&amp;#x2F;dl-plus&lt;/a&gt; is one example. As a bonus that would help greatly with recent youtube-dl sort of situations and RIAA would have barely made a splash.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of other features immediately come to mind as well: universal media support, proper parallelism, GUI, desktop integrations, proxies support, anti-captcha... The punchline is: all of this and much more you could find in jdownloader 10 years ago. But somehow youtube-dl won that race. How did that happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites</title><url>https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NegativeLatency</author><text>As a former jdownlader user, it never stopped working but seems to be neglected.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the ability to pip install youtube-dl compared to getting jdownloder off of some software site with multiple dark patterns to dodge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IngvarLynn</author><text>One obvious issue with both these downloaders is lack of proper modularization. Which greatly hinders adoption, I believe. I would expect some kind of plugin system. Naturally, there are attempts to fix that: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;un-def&amp;#x2F;dl-plus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;un-def&amp;#x2F;dl-plus&lt;/a&gt; is one example. As a bonus that would help greatly with recent youtube-dl sort of situations and RIAA would have barely made a splash.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of other features immediately come to mind as well: universal media support, proper parallelism, GUI, desktop integrations, proxies support, anti-captcha... The punchline is: all of this and much more you could find in jdownloader 10 years ago. But somehow youtube-dl won that race. How did that happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites</title><url>https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl</url></story>