LinkSwift: A 30,000 Star Userscript for 9 Chinese Cloud Drives

By Indie Kings | October 26, 2026

Updated October 26, 2026: LinkSwift, a userscript with more than 30,000 GitHub stars, pulls direct download links out of nine Chinese cloud storage services and hands them to download managers, with the developer explicitly disclaiming the speed hack claims that circulate around it.

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What the script does

The hmjz100/LinkSwift repository on GitHub stands at 30,308 stars and 2,080 forks, licensed AGPL-3.0, and describes itself as a JavaScript based tool for getting file download addresses from network drives. It is a userscript for Tampermonkey or ScriptCat, modified from an earlier project, the Web Drive Direct Link Download Assistant by syhyz1990, and it works against nine Chinese cloud storage services: Baidu, Aliyun, China Mobile, Tianyi, Xunlei, Guangya, Quark, UC and 123pan. In each case the script calls the service's own publicly exposed API to obtain a direct download address for the file you are viewing, so the heavy lifting stays on the network drive side and the script never needs a login proxy or a middleman server.

Nine drives, six managers

Getting the link is only half the workflow, because big files off Chinese cloud services hate ordinary browser downloads. The script pushes each link straight to a download manager: Aria2, cURL, IDM, AB Download Manager, Motrix or BitComet, with RPC, command line or export handled by the user menu. Version history splits into two tracks: the official release is v1.1.3, published February 16, 2026, while a rolling canary build reached v1.1.4 on September 9, 2026, adding support for Guangya cloud along the way. The repository development happens largely on the dev branch, which matches the 334 commits noted there rather than a separate master line.

What it does not do

The README is unusually blunt about the boundary. The author explicitly states the script cannot and will not crack download speed restrictions; the throttling those services apply to non VIP accounts is not something a userscript magically bypasses, and claims otherwise get no endorsement from the project. What it does do is remove friction: no client install, no waiting room theater, direct addresses for the files you already have rights to view, and the AGPL-3.0 license keeps the source obligation with anyone who forks it. The star count, which puts it among the most starred userscripts on GitHub, is as much a signal of how painful those cloud drives are as of the engineering.

Repo card

Item	Detail
Project	LinkSwift by hmjz100
License	AGPL-3.0
Repo stats	30,308 stars, 2,080 forks, 334 commits on dev
Type	Tampermonkey/ScriptCat userscript, modified from syhyz1990's network drive direct link assistant
Services	Baidu, Aliyun, China Mobile, Tianyi, Xunlei, Guangya, Quark, UC, 123pan
Managers	Aria2, cURL, IDM, AB Download Manager, Motrix, BitComet
Official release	v1.1.3, February 16, 2026
Canary release	v1.1.4, September 9, 2026, adds Guangya cloud support
Explicit limit	No speed restriction cracking, per the README disclaimer

FAQ

What is LinkSwift?
A browser userscript that obtains direct download addresses from nine Chinese cloud storage services and can pass them to external download managers.

Which services does it support?
Baidu, Aliyun, China Mobile, Tianyi, Xunlei, Guangya, Quark, UC and 123pan network drives.

Which download managers can it push to?
Aria2, cURL, IDM, AB Download Manager, Motrix and BitComet.

Does it bypass download speed limits?
No, the author states outright that the script cannot crack speed restrictions and does not endorse such claims.

Is it affiliated with the original project?
It is a modified version of syhyz1990's network drive direct link download assistant, maintained as a separate AGPL-3.0 project.

What are the current versions?
Official v1.1.3 from February 2026, and a canary v1.1.4 from September 2026 that adds Guangya cloud support.

Bottom Line

Thirty thousand stars for a userscript is the community voting on how hostile cloud drive UX had become, not on some clever exploit: LinkSwift mostly reassembles links the services' own front ends already had. Its most valuable feature is the disclaimer, an honest line between convenience and cracking that keeps the project describable and surviving, and its user base is the proof that friction, not throughput, is what people actually wanted gone.

Sources

GitHub hmjz100/LinkSwift README (services, managers, version history, disclaimers), accessed 26 October 2026
GitHub API repository metadata for hmjz100/LinkSwift, accessed 26 October 2026