gdirect
Rust Google Drive direct downloader using pinned libaria2
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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 762 upvotes (top 1%)
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- Dev tools
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- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial A Rust CLI wrapping aria2 and Google Drive OAuth is vibe-codeable, but the described value depends on network-level circumvention that requires real networking expertise.
What it would actually take: The downloader part is a Rust CLI that calls the Google Drive API via OAuth and hands direct links to a pinned libaria2 for multi-threaded downloads. The hard part is the connectivity layer described in the write-up: SNI handling, certificate pinning, and alternate-endpoint routing to reach Google services from restricted networks. That requires TLS and network-stack expertise, and it carries legal and operational risk.
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Attention rank: #7 of 631 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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