Metalink is an Internet standard that harnesses the speed and power of peer to peer networking and traditional downloads with a single click.
For users and content providers, Metalink makes downloading simpler, faster, and more reliable.
- If one link or server fails, download automatically continues using another.
- One Click Downloads. Easy user experience.
- Minimizes and distributes traffic so individual servers are under less strain.
- Downloads are verified for enhanced reliability.
- Structured information about downloads.
- Increased security.
- Extremely fast download speeds.
- Automatic error recovery and repair of corrupted downloads.
- Combines FTP and HTTP with optional Peer-to-peer (P2P, shared bandwidth).
- Easily add multiple files to a download queue.
- No Single Point of Failure (SPOF) like FTP or HTTP URLs. More fault tolerant.
- Allows sites to publish where resources are duplicated on a mirror network/CDN to improve caching.
- Transparent usage where people can get the benefits of Metalink without even knowing they're using it.
| 04 Feb : | MirrorBrain 2.18.0 a Download Redirector with Metalink and Torrent generator, is out! Details... |
| 29 Jan : | curl 7.35.0 continues Metalink support! |
| 05 Jan : | aria2 1.18.3! (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink (RFC 5854/RFC 6249) support, is out! |
| 17 Dec : | Fedora 20 Metalinks! |
| 17 Oct : | Ubuntu 13.10 Metalinks! Useful for regular downloads and also used by Wubi. |
| 26 Mar : | DownThemAll! 2.0.16 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink on Firefox! |
| 24 Mar : | DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 4 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink on Firefox! |
| 05 Mar : | (meta)Linking Students Together For Summer #gsoc |
| 30 Jan : | FTP RANG Command for Octet Ranges Transfers IETF Internet Draft. |
| 30 Jan : | FTP LOCK Command for Using a Single Port IETF Internet Draft. |
| 19 Jan : | FTP HASH Command for Cryptographic Hashes IETF Internet Draft. |
| 17 Jan : | Metalink/XML Clients, Publishers, and Caches IETF Internet Draft. |
| 20 Nov : | Metalink Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy! |
| 03 Nov : | wget with Metalink support! ("parallel-wget" git branch, expected in wget 1.16!) #gsoc |
| 03 Sep : | mget is an experimental (alpha) wget-like command line tool with Metalink (RFC 5854/RFC 6249) support! |
| 29 Aug : | Metalink command line tools like libmetalink and curl for OS X are on Homebrew, try 'brew install curl --with-libmetalink'. |
| 28 Aug : | libmetalink, a Metalink library, adds Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files to programs written in C. |
| 20 Aug : | Google Summer of Code finals! 5 projects: wget, Chrome, Apache Traffic Server, KGet, and aria2/DownThemAll! See our Ideas page for what's in progress and where we still need help! |
| 20 Aug : | Metalink Downloader is a new Chrome extension with Metalink support! (Now on the Chrome Web Store). #gsoc |
| 20 Aug : | DownThemAll! (Firefox extension) with Metalink/HTTP support! (expected in a future release!) #gsoc |
| 20 Aug : | webui-aria2 is a slick new web interface for aria2! #gsoc |
| 20 Aug : | KDE's KGet with Metalink/HTTP support! (expected in a future release!) #gsoc |
| 20 Aug : | Apache Traffic Server Metalink plugin detects Metalinks in a cache and serves identical content up faster! #gsoc |
| 10 Aug : | Google: Who's New in Google Summer of Code 2012 - Metalink. |
| 24 May : | Metalink on Wired's Webmonkey! |
| 26 Mar : | KDE Enhances Mirroring Network with MirrorBrain and Metalinks! |