Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource downloading method and apparatus. The method includes: intercepting an access request for current resources; finding, through a resource relationship index file, resources which have dependency relationships with the current resources and do not exist locally on the client as predicted resources, wherein the resource relationship index file is generated in advance according to dependency relationships between individual resources in the full client of a network application; and allocating a first thread from unoccupied threads available for downloading the predicted resources, and downloading the predicted resources locally to the client using the first thread. In addition, embodiments of the present invention provide a resource downloading apparatus.