This project is still experimental and might contains some bugs. Please fill an issue if you find one.
./storm.sh <url>./storm.sh links.txtThe file
links.txtmust contains one URL per line and must end with a blank line.
When discussing with 0xD1G about this project, he gave me few ideas where "storm" was mentioned. It directly came to my mind that was "the" name to use for this project due to the high download speed it can acheive and the impact on the underlaying storage which is like a storm! 😅
The script will look for several binaries and use any of them from the faster to the slower one based on my tests.
For example, if you have any or all the supported binaries installed, it will try them in the following order:
aria2pgetlftpcurlwget
However, the script needs to have at least curl or wget to be installed for running.
Please read this section before creating any new issues.
High download speed can be only achieved by installing one of the following binaries: aria2, lftp, pget. However, during the tests, only aria2 remained constant and reached the fastest download speed on local and network attached storage.
It's not the case with lftp and particularly for pget that claims to be the fastest download binary but it's completely wrong.
pget is certainly fast but only on local storage and even that, lftp appeared to be sometimes faster than it during my tests...
When used on a network attached storage, the download speed of pget is dramatically slow... Using curl or wget instead would make no difference when the output file is not written locally.
Conclusion:
If you want high download speed on both local and network attached storage, please install aria2. If you can't, install lftp instead. But if you plan to download files only locally, then pget is a good choice.
I still have to figure out why for example, the & char is not supported when reading the URLs from a text file. It should be fixed in the future versions.
To 0xD1G for the great project name! 🤘
- Jiab77