Metalink is an open specification 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.
- Transparent usage where people can get the benefits of Metalink without even knowing they're using it.
| 30 Jun : | DownThemAll! 1.1.4 (Firefox extension) is out! This is the easiest way to try out Metalink! |
| 27 Jun : | Linux Format Magazine issue 119: What on Earth is Metalink? |
| 25 Jun : | find that file is a search engine for downloads, and it now spiders Metalinks! |
| 20 Jun : | If you'd like to contribute to our project, see our ideas page! |
| 18 Jun : | Internet Draft describing the Metalink format has been submitted to the IETF. This is a work in progress and not meant to be implimented, only reviewed. |
| 12 Jun : | Sabily Linux offers Metalinks. |
| 11 Jun : | Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha2 official Metalinks. |
| 09 Jun : | Fedora 11 is out. Download now with metalinks! yum, which updates packages, uses metalink. |
| 08 Jun : | RGhost, a file sharing site, supplies metalinks for downloads. |
| 07 Jun : | aria2 1.4.1! (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. |
| 05 Jun : | MirrorBrain 2.8.1, a Download Redirector and Metalink Generator, is out! |
| 04 Jun : | mulk is a command line multi-connection network downloader with image filtering. |
| 03 Jun : | KGet, part of KDE 4.2.4, supports Metalink. Check the release announcements for ways to try it out! |
| 20 Apr : | Google Summer of Code : Improvements to KGet includes Metalink! |
| 07 Oct : | Metalink wins Silver in Sun Microsystem's Community Innovation Program for OpenOffice.org! |