diff --git a/manifests/media/jdownloader.yaml b/manifests/media/jdownloader.yaml
index 08d41e5..b3a4c27 100644
--- a/manifests/media/jdownloader.yaml
+++ b/manifests/media/jdownloader.yaml
@@ -169,8 +169,14 @@ spec:
 
                       package_name = basename.split('.', 1)[0] or 'subyshare'
                       fname = f'{WATCH_DIR}/{int(time.time()*1000)}.crawljob'
+                      lines = [f'text={url}', 'autoStart=TRUE', 'autoConfirm=TRUE', f'packageName={package_name}']
+                      password = params.get('password', [''])[0]
+                      if password:
+                          # crawljob format requires literal backslashes doubled
+                          escaped_pw = password.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+                          lines.append(f'downloadPassword={escaped_pw}')
                       with open(fname, 'w') as f:
-                          f.write(f'text={url}\nautoStart=TRUE\nautoConfirm=TRUE\npackageName={package_name}\n')
+                          f.write('\n'.join(lines) + '\n')
                       self.send_response(200); self.end_headers()
                       self.wfile.write(b'Ok.')
                   def log_message(self, *a): pass