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So excited it moved to github and away from SourceForge By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything and is also the fastest

by baldfat 11y ago

So excited it moved to github and away from SourceForge By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything and is also the fastest bit torrent app I have ever used. EDIT: I also use aria2c for the backend of my Arch Linux package manager pacman. Gives me multiple of connections per host and speeds up updates by at least two folds. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192072 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192072 2nd EDIT: Windows works but I have had better luck with uGet portable app for Windows. http://ugetdm.com/downloads-windows http://ugetdm.com/downloads-windows

rsync 11y ago
"By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything" Just to clarify, when you say "anything" do you mean things like soundcloud and youtube ? Is this an alternative to a tool like youtube-dl ?
- vram22 11y ago
  Good question, I'd like to know too. aria is also controllable by Python via XML-RPC - seen that in the docs, on my stack to try, could be useful.
- nopcode 11y ago
  aria2c supports HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP and Torrent/Metalink. Many applications (youtube-dl through --external-downloader) can use aria2c as a "downloader backend". aria2c + https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 offers a very fast, portable and simple download manager.
- sirn 11y ago
  Probably not quite what you meant (since it still require youtube-dl), but youtube-dl has built-in support for downloading using aria2c as a backend. youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
  - baldfat 11y ago
    I now have a new alias thank you!
ubercow 11y ago
this pacman + aria2 is awesome. had no idea that was even possible.
- scriptdevil 11y ago
  The only issue I had with this setup was that if a download got cancelled, it would start failing throwing package integrity errors because aria downloads directly to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package_name.tar.xz rather than a .part file which is copied upon completion. The built-in downloader of pacman ensures this is done right.
ubercow13 11y ago
uGet can use aria2 as its backend too
- baldfat 11y ago
  aria2c is the backend for uGet

by baldfat 11y ago

rsync 11y ago

"By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything" Just to clarify, when you say "anything" do you mean things like soundcloud and youtube ? Is this an alternative to a tool like youtube-dl ?

vram22 11y ago
Good question, I'd like to know too. aria is also controllable by Python via XML-RPC - seen that in the docs, on my stack to try, could be useful.
nopcode 11y ago
aria2c supports HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP and Torrent/Metalink. Many applications (youtube-dl through --external-downloader) can use aria2c as a "downloader backend". aria2c + https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 offers a very fast, portable and simple download manager.
sirn 11y ago
Probably not quite what you meant (since it still require youtube-dl), but youtube-dl has built-in support for downloading using aria2c as a backend. youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- baldfat 11y ago
  I now have a new alias thank you!

ubercow 11y ago

this pacman + aria2 is awesome. had no idea that was even possible.

scriptdevil 11y ago
The only issue I had with this setup was that if a download got cancelled, it would start failing throwing package integrity errors because aria downloads directly to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package_name.tar.xz rather than a .part file which is copied upon completion. The built-in downloader of pacman ensures this is done right.

ubercow13 11y ago

uGet can use aria2 as its backend too

baldfat 11y ago
aria2c is the backend for uGet