Metalink is an open specification that harnesses the speed and power of peer to peer networking, FTP, and HTTP with a single click.
For users and content providers, Metalink makes things 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.
- 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.
- Transparent usage where people can get the benefits of Metalink without even knowing they're using it.
| 02 Jan : | Feature bounties for Firefox, curl, wget, Google Chrome, and others. |
| 01 Jan : | Free Download Manager 3.0 (Windows) supports Metalink better! |
| 31 Dec : | DownThemAll! 1.1 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink! |
| 31 Dec : | Internet Draft describing the Metalink format has been submitted to the IETF. |
| 29 Dec : | aria2 1.1.2! (Unix/Win), the high speed command line download utility with Metalink support, is out! Try out aria2fe, a friendly GUI front end, while you're at it. |
| 20 Dec : | GGet 0.0.4, a modern downloader for GNOME, has arrived! |
| 18 Dec : | openSUSE 11.1 is here! Best Way to Download openSUSE! |
| 22 Nov : | MirrorBrain 2.2, a Download Redirector and Metalink Generator, it out! |
| 09 Nov : | libmetalink is a Metalink library written in C language. It adds Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files to programs written in C. PylibMetalink, Python bindings for libmetalink, are available. |
| 07 Oct : | Metalink wins Silver in Sun Microsystem's Community Innovation Program for OpenOffice.org! |
| 26 Aug : | yum uses Metalinks for system updates. |