https://github.com/saldl/saldl

A lightweight well-featured CLI downloader optimized for speed and early preview.
https://github.com/saldl/saldl

accelerator cli command-line cross-platform download downloader early-preview flashgot in-memory in-order libcurl multi-platform posix terminal tty vty

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A lightweight well-featured CLI downloader optimized for speed and early preview.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/saldl/saldl
• Owner: saldl
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-08-28T21:23:05.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-27T20:37:52.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-15T10:53:13.998Z (11 days ago)
• Topics: accelerator, cli, command-line, cross-platform, download, downloader, early-preview, flashgot, in-memory, in-order, libcurl, multi-platform, posix, terminal, tty, vty
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://saldl.github.io
• Size: 1.24 MB
• Stars: 257
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# ![saldl banner](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saldl/misc/master/saldl_banner_alpha.png)

A multi-platform command-line downloader optimized for speed and early

preview, based on libcurl.

**saldl** splits a download into fixed-sized chunks and download

them in-order with multiple concurrent connections. Classic modes

(single chunk single connection, no. of chunks = no. of connections)

are also available as *options*.

More than 57 command-line options are available to customize saldl's behavior.

## Documentation

Detailed documentation is available in the form of

a [manual page](https://saldl.github.io/saldl.1.html).

## Contact

[Users Chat & Questions](https://github.com/saldl/saldl/issues/4)

## FlashGot integration

 Check out the `README` and the scripts in the [flashgot](flashgot/)

 directory.

## Screenshot

```

   -s4m => set chunk_size to 4 MiB.

   -c4  => use 4 concurrent connections.

   -l4  => download the last 4 chunks first.

```

![saldl screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saldl/misc/master/saldl.png)

## Dependencies

 * **Runtime Dependencies**

  * [libcurl](https://github.com/bagder/curl) >= 7.55

  * [libevent + libevent_pthreads](https://github.com/libevent/libevent) >= 2.0.20

 * **Build Dependencies**

  * GCC or Clang

  * python (for waf)

 * **Optional Build Dependencies**

  * git (to get the current version).

  * asciidoc (to build the manual).

  **Note**: `docbook-xsl` should be installed too if it's not already

            a dependency of `asciidoc`. While this is theoritically not

            necessary, falling back to getting XSL stylesheets directly

            from SourceForge seems to be unreliable nowadays.

## Build

  **saldl** has been tested on GNU/Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OSX, and Windows.

  **saldl** should build and run successfully on all POSIX platforms.

  If anyone runs into any build failures, reporting them would be highly

  appreciated.

### POSIX

 * **General**

  Run `./waf --help` first and check out the available options.

  A typical example would be:

  ```

  ./waf configure --prefix=/usr

  ./waf

  ./waf install --destdir=${pkgdir}

  ```

 * **Arch Linux**

  **saldl** is available in the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/saldl-git).

 * **Mac OSX**

  **saldl** can be installed with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh).

  For the latest release, run:

      brew install saldl

  For the latest GIT head, run:

      brew install --HEAD saldl

  **Note**: saldl will be linked against system `libcurl` if the Mac OSX

            version installed is Yosemite (10.10) or newer. Pass `--with-curl`

            if you want to link against the latest `libcurl` release provided

            by Homebrew.

### Windows

 * **MSYS2/Cygwin**

  A [PKGBUILD](MSYS2/PKGBUILD) for MSYS2.

  **Note**: Building against the MSYS2 runtime (or Cygwin's) is

            necessary for **saldl** to work correctly in

            [mintty](https://github.com/mintty/mintty).

 * **MinGW-w64/Native**

  Experimental binaries are now available in

  the [releases](https://github.com/saldl/saldl/releases) page.

  **saldl** requires a terminal emulator with support for ANSI/VT100

  escape sequences (e.g. [ConEmu](https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu)

  or [ansicon](https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon)).