kingwrcy / got

Got: Simple golang package and CLI tool to download large files faster than cURL and Wget!

Got.

Simple and fast concurrent downloader.

Installation ❘ CLI Usage ❘ Module Usage ❘ License

Comparison

Comparison in my machine:

// cURL
$ time curl http://speedtest.ftp.otenet.gr/files/test10Mb.db --output test

real	0m38.225s
user	0m0.044s
sys	0m0.199s


// Got
$ time got --out test http://speedtest.ftp.otenet.gr/files/test10Mb.db

real	0m7.136s
user	0m0.793s
sys	0m0.507s

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Comparison in cloud server:

// Got
$ time got --out /tmp/test http://www.ovh.net/files/1Gio.dat
 Total Size: 1.1 GB | Chunk Size: 54 MB | Concurrency: 10 | Progress: 1.1 GB | Done!

real	0m10.273s
user	0m0.205s
sys	0m3.296s

// cURL
$ time curl http://www.ovh.net/files/1Gio.dat --output /tmp/test1
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1024M  100 1024M    0     0  30.8M      0  0:00:33  0:00:33 --:--:-- 36.4M

real	0m33.318s
user	0m0.420s
sys	0m2.056s

Installation

You can download compiled version from releases.

Or Go ahead compile it yourself:

go get github.com/melbahja/got/cmd/got

Command Line Tool Usage

Simple usage:

got https://example.com/file.mp4

Or you can specify destination path:

got --out /path/to/save https://example.com/file.mp4

To see all available flags type:

got --help

Module Usage

You can use Got to download large files in your go code, the usage is simple as the CLI tool:

package main

import "github.com/melbahja/got"

func main() {

    dl, err := got.New("https://example.com/file.mp4", "/path/to/save")

    if err != nil {
    	// handle the error!
    }

    // Start the download
    err = dl.Start()
}

For more see GoDocs.

License

Got is provided under the MIT License © Mohammed El Bahja.