putyy/res-downloader — what it is and what it’s for

About the project

Cross-platform resource downloader built with Go + Wails: it sniffs traffic through a proxy and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 and live streams from WeChat, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.

Useful for

Download a WeChat Channels or mini-program video via the built-in proxy
Save a clip from Douyin, Kuaishou or Xiaohongshu without third-party services
Sniff an m3u8 stream and hand it to m3u8-down or OBS for recording

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

25 stars so far today, about 73 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 19 per day, so that's 3.9× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 6.3× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +152 stars.
About 19 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 20,165
Today: 25 · ≈ 73 by evening
Forks: 2,501
Issues and pull requests: 364
Watchers: 111
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 4.0.0-beta.5 · September 14, 2026
Created: September 1, 2023
Last push: September 24, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 26, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +152 stars

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