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MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader
Direct links from Microsoft's CDN. No ads. No registration.
Microsoft's own download page makes you pass a browser check first, and most third-party ISO sites bundle ads or unwanted installers. MSDL replicates Microsoft's own session flow to hand you the exact same signed CDN link, directly — no account, no ads, no browser gate. It ships two ways: a web app for quick lookups and a CLI (msdl) that runs the fetch from your own machine — useful since Microsoft rate-limits server-side traffic. Fully open source, self-hostable, no account or ads either way.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built MSDL because I was tired of Microsoft's own download page making you jump through a browser check before it'd give you a link — and every third-party alternative I found bundled ads or a random installer wrapper around it.
It replicates the same session flow Microsoft's page itself uses, so you get the identical signed CDN link, just without the browser gate.
The interesting part of building this: Microsoft started blocking our server's IP range outright (standard anti-scraping policy on their end, not a bug). Rather than fight it, I rebuilt the core as a CLI that runs the same lookup from your machine instead – which can't be blocked the same way, since it's not a rentable trend to just block residential IPs. Every CLI run optionally shares the link back to warm the web app's cache too, so the two reinforce each other.
Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's hit Microsoft's rate limits doing this manually before.
About MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader on Product Hunt
“Direct links from Microsoft's CDN. No ads. No registration.”
MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #40 on the daily leaderboard. Microsoft's own download page makes you pass a browser check first, and most third-party ISO sites bundle ads or unwanted installers. MSDL replicates Microsoft's own session flow to hand you the exact same signed CDN link, directly — no account, no ads, no browser gate. It ships two ways: a web app for quick lookups and a CLI (msdl) that runs the fetch from your own machine — useful since Microsoft rate-limits server-side traffic. Fully open source, self-hostable, no account or ads either way.
On the analytics side, MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader competes within Productivity, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader?
MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader was hunted by Shekhar Vaidya. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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