https://github.com/buzzer-re/gofast

A HTTP accelerator using concurrent programming
https://github.com/buzzer-re/gofast

golang http http-accelerator utilities

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A HTTP accelerator using concurrent programming

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/buzzer-re/gofast
• Owner: buzzer-re
• Created: 2020-12-22T00:12:26.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-15T20:13:13.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-02-20T08:50:06.026Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: golang, http, http-accelerator, utilities
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.56 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# GoFast

![gofast-CI](https://github.com/AandersonL/gofast/workflows/gofast-CI/badge.svg)

![gofast-CD](https://github.com/AandersonL/gofast/workflows/gofast-CD/badge.svg)

A HTTP downloader accelerator like [axel](https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel), but faster.

## What is this ?

gofast is a http-only downloader that uses multiple connections through concurrency relying in [Range Request](https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7233.txt). It can burst your download speed just by spliting the whole GET request in ***N*** connections.

## Features

* Normal HTTP download if the server does not accept ranges

* HTTP concurrency download

* Control of how many parallel connections per host

## Usage

There is a couple of options that you can use:


$ gofast -h                                                                

A HTTP downloader accelerator using concurrency


Usage:

  gofast [flags]

Flags:

  -h, --help            help for gofast

  -n, --num-tasks int   Number of tasks to download (default 8)

  -o, --output string   File output name



Simple usage:


$ gofast https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso                                                         

Starting concurrent download of ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

Downloading 100% |...| (2.6/2.6 GB, 10.634 MB/s)          

Downloaded in 4m9.761532636s



Downloading the same file using axel:


$ axel -a https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

Initializing download: https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

File size: 2785017856 bytes

Opening output file ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.0

Starting download


Connection 3 unexpectedly closed

Connection 0 finished

Connection 1 finished

Connection 2 finished

Connection 1 finished

Connection 3 finished

Connection 0 finished

Downloaded 2.59375 Gigabyte(s) in 4:32 minute(s). (9969.09 KB/s)



## Installing

You can go to [releases](https://github.com/AandersonL/gofast/releases) and grab the latest one, or manually build (Tested on Linux and Windows).

> $ git clone https://github.com/aandersonl/gofast && cd gofast && go build

Or

> go get github.com/aandersonl/gofast

Make sure to have GOROOT variable configured to the installation above works.

Any bugs or enhancement feel free to open a issue or pull request!