https://github.com/phoemur/wgetter

Download utility written in python
https://github.com/phoemur/wgetter

cli-utilities downloader network python python-wget

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Download utility written in python

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/phoemur/wgetter
• Owner: phoemur
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-03-08T02:07:36.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-08-12T03:41:57.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-24T04:39:30.441Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: cli-utilities, downloader, network, python, python-wget
• Language: Python
• Size: 20.5 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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About

=====

Wgetter is another command line download utility written completely in python.

It is based on python-wget (https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/python-wget/src)

with some improvements.

It works on python >= 2.6 or python >=3.0

Runs on Windows or Linux or Mac

Usage

=====

    python -m wgetter 

API Usage

=========

    >>> import wgetter

    >>> filename = wgetter.download('https://sites.google.com/site/doctormike/pacman-1.2.tar.gz', outdir='/home/user')

    100 % [====================================================>] 19.9KiB / 19.9KiB  100.0KiB/s  eta 0:00:01

    >>> filename

    '/home/user/pacman-1.2.tar.gz'

    

Obs.: If not set, output directory (outdir) defaults to current directory

Installation

============

Using PIP:

    

    pip install wgetter

Manually:

Get the tarball at

    

    https://github.com/phoemur/wgetter/tarball/0.6

    

or git clone

    

    git clone https://github.com/phoemur/wgetter.git

    

Then

    

    python setup.py install

    

Changelog

=========

0.7 (2017-07-01)

 * Some Bug Fixes

0.6 (2015-03-07)

 * Some Bug Fixes

0.5.1 (2014-08-25)

 * Added improved bar and estimated transfer time

0.3 (2014-03-08)

 * Added the option to set download's output directory

0.2 (2014-03-06)

 * Init version, uses urllib2 instead of urlretrieve (deprecated), reads in chunks with network transfer rate calculation.

   Fancy bar. Human readable file-sizes. Checks Md5 if available and download final size.

   It's a heavy modification of python-wget made for my needs that i decided to share.