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Aria2 Explorer

👥 80K+ users
📦 v2.7.7
💾 1.46MiB
📅 2026-01-02
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Overview

Aria2-Explorer captures browser's download task and exports it to Aria2 via JSON-RPC interfaces to complete download task.

Aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & open-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

Usage Procedures:

1. For Windows, please install Aria2 Manager: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p5wq68q20wv?cid=cws
Other platform, please download Aria2 utility: https://github.com/aria2/aria2/releases/latest.
2. For Windows, please run Aria2 Manager . Other platform, please run Aria2 in the Terminal with typing aria2c --enable-rpc.
3. Install this Chrome extension.
4. Enable auto-capture on the extension options page and configure others as you need.

(For Motrix user, please use http://localhost:16800/jsonrpc as the RPC URL)

After these steps, you could enjoy the multi-threads and BT download experience inside the Chrome.

Warning: Please turn off auto-capture function, when you are using other extension to download network resources. Otherwise, there will be conflict and exception arisen.

Features: [ ZERO collection of user data and privacy ]
1. Auto capture browser download tasks
- Capture notification
- Support magnet links
- Toggle auto-capture by shortcut (Default: Alt + A)
- Set all Aria2 options manually before download
- Filter task by the domain, file extensions or file sizes
Filter priority: domain > file-ext > file-size, white-list > black-list

2. Auto-select Aria2 RPC server by matching the preset download URL pattern

3. Built-in Aria2 front-end: AriaNG enhanced, multiple present styles: popup, new tab, new window

4. Synchronize and store all settings on the cloud

5. Support for zh-CN/zh-TW/en/fr/it/ja/ko/ru/uk languages

6. Monitor Aria2 download status via icon badge

7. Batch export web (Image · Audio · Video · Magnet) links from context menu

8. Receive download requests from other extensions

9. Support shortcuts in the options page (Save: Alt + S Reset: Alt + R Download: Alt + J Upload: Alt + U)

10. Download via browser if Aria2 is not connected

Update log:

https://github.com/alexhua/Aria2-Explorer/releases

Contribution is welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/alexhua/Aria2-Explorer

Tags

Productivity/tools productivity productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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