https://github.com/agourlay/dlm

Minimal HTTP download manager
https://github.com/agourlay/dlm

cli download-manager http

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Minimal HTTP download manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/agourlay/dlm
• Owner: agourlay
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-11-26T18:31:30.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-26T21:01:24.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T19:37:51.237Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: cli, download-manager, http
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 807 KB
• Stars: 56
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# dlm

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[![Crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/dlm.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/dlm)

A minimal HTTP download manager that works just fine.

## Features

- read URLs from a text file

- control maximum number of concurrent downloads

- resume interrupted downloads if possible (using HTTP range)

- automatically retry re-establishing download in case of timeout or hanging connection

- multi progress bars (made with [indicatif](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/indicatif))

- native support for proxies and redirects

### Input file format

- one URL per line

- empty lines are ignored

- lines starting with `#` are ignored as comment

## Usage

```

./dlm --help

Minimal download manager

Usage: dlm [OPTIONS] [URL]

Arguments:

  [URL]  Direct URL to download

Options:

  -m, --max-concurrent 

          Maximum number of concurrent downloads [default: 2]

  -i, --input-file 

          Input file with links

  -o, --output-dir 

          Output directory for downloads [default: .]

  -u, --user-agent 

          User-Agent header to use

      --random-user-agent

          Use a random User-Agent header

      --proxy 

          HTTP proxy to use

  -r, --retry 

          Number of retries on network error [default: 10]

      --connection-timeout 

          Connection timeout in seconds [default: 10]

  -a, --accept 

          Accept header value

      --accept-invalid-certs

          Accept invalid TLS certificates

  -h, --help

          Print help

  -V, --version

          Print version

```

## Examples

- Download single file

```bash

./dlm https://storage.com/my-file.zip

```

- Download several files into current directory

```bash

./dlm --input-file ~/dlm/links.txt

```

- With output directory and max concurrent download control

```bash

./dlm --input-file ~/dlm/links.txt --output-dir ~/dlm/output --max-concurrent 2

```

## Installation

### Releases

Using the provided binaries in https://github.com/agourlay/dlm/releases

### Crates.io

Using Cargo via [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/dlm).

```bash

cargo install dlm

```