name: download-anything description: > Find and download virtually any digital resource from the internet — ebooks, academic papers, movies, TV shows, music, software, images, fonts, courses, and more. Covers both English and Chinese internet ecosystems. Includes CLI tool workflows (yt-dlp, aria2, gallery-dl, spotdl), resource site directories, cloud drive search engines (百度/阿里/夸克网盘搜索), and search techniques (Google dorks). Use when the user wants to: (1) download a video, audio, or media from a URL, (2) find and download an ebook or academic paper, (3) find and download software, (4) search for any digital resource, (5) batch download images or media from a gallery/site, (6) download torrents or magnet links, (7) find free stock assets (images, video, audio, fonts), (8) search Chinese cloud drives for resources, or (9) any task involving finding or downloading digital content from the internet.

Download Anything

Find it. Download it. Any resource, any format.

Toolkit

# Install all tools at once
bash scripts/install-toolkit.sh

Decision Tree

Scripts

All in scripts/. Each does one thing. Compose as needed.

Quick One-Liners

# Best quality video
yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" "URL"

# 1080p video + subtitles
yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=1080]+ba/b" --write-subs --sub-langs "en,zh" "URL"

# Extract audio as MP3
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "URL"

# Download YouTube playlist
yt-dlp --yes-playlist "URL"

# Fast file download (16 connections)
aria2c -x16 -s16 -k1M "URL"

# Download magnet
aria2c --seed-time=0 "magnet:?xt=..."

# Batch images from gallery
gallery-dl "URL"

# Spotify album → local MP3s
spotdl "SPOTIFY_URL"

# All PDFs from a page
wget -r -l1 -A "*.pdf" "URL"

# Video metadata as JSON (automation)
yt-dlp -j "URL"

# Get direct URL without downloading
yt-dlp -g "URL"

Agent Automation Patterns

Video pipeline: yt-dlp -j URL → parse JSON → select format → yt-dlp -f FORMAT URL -o OUTPUT

Ebook search: Search Anna's Archive / Z-Library / 鸠摩搜书 → get download page → extract link → aria2c

Bulk media: gallery-dl --dump-json URL → review items → gallery-dl -d OUTPUT URL

Music: spotdl SPOTIFY_URL (auto YouTube match + metadata) or yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 YOUTUBE_URL

Domain Instability

Many resource sites rotate domains. When a URL fails:

1. Search: [site name] mirror 2026 or [站名] 最新地址
2. Check Reddit/Twitter for community mirror lists
3. Anna's Archive = most resilient ebook meta-search
4. For Chinese cloud search: check 网盘之家导航 for latest links

References