agourlay / dlm

Minimal HTTP download manager

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[Feature Request] Receive and process URL directly from user and command-line instead of file.

chromer030 opened this issue · comments

Currently dlm feeds the URLs from external file via --inputFile switch , this is a great and useful option because brings us queue downloading. Thanks for it.

But sometimes we have just 1 URL for download and creating a file.txt and pasting URL and then feeding it in dlm is too much work.
I think lack of feature of direct processing URL is felt.

Proposed feature look likes this :

dlm "URL"
dlm "https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb"

I am not sure about this feature TBH.
There are already so many tools for single file download.

Why would dlm be a good fit for this use case?

DLM is already really good tool , thank you very much for all efforts, but i think with this feature it will become more feature-rich and all-in-one tool.
It can be a feature alongside other features.
But decision is yours , i respect whatever you decide, this tool is already very good.

I decided that the cost of this feature is not worth the value provided given that other tools, such as wget, are made for this use case.

Closing the issue for the time being until I change my mind 🤔