squiidz / snatch

A simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust

snatch

A simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust

(A special thanks to @frankirito for this awesome logo !)

Current features

• Simple: a command line to manage easily your downloads ;
• Fast: multithreading support.

NOTE: Snatch is on alpha version. This version runs well on remote contents that length is known before the download (by the content-length header from the server response) - also, the Interruptable feature is not implemented yet.

Installation

1. Please to install Rust and Cargo using rustup ;
2. Install Snatch: cargo install --git https://github.com/derniercri/snatch.git ;
3. Enjoy !

Usage

Usage:
    snatch [OPTIONS]

Snatch, a simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust.

optional arguments:
  -h,--help             show this help message and exit
  -f,--file FILE        The local file to save the remote content file
  -t,--threads THREADS  Number of threads available to download
  -u,--url URL          Remote content URL to download
  -v,--verbose          Verbose mode

Screenshot

File examples

• A simple PDF file
• Big Buck Bunny, a big free mp4 file
• The cat DNA, a big .gz file
• A big PDF file from Princeton

Contributing

You want to contribute to Snatch ?
This is a list of ways you can help us out :

• improve the documentation,
• improve the CLI,
• add new features (please to see our issues),
• report bugs.

If you want to create a pull request, this is the procedure to make it great:

• create an issue to explain the problem you encountered (except for typo),
• fork the project,
• create a local branch to make changes (from our devel branch),
• test your changes,
• create a pull request (please to compare with our devel branch),
• explain your changes,
• submit !

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Snatch ! :-D

Build issues

• fatal error: 'openssl/hmac.h' file not found
  If you are on a GNU/Linux distribution (like Ubuntu), please install libssl-dev.
  If you are on macOS, please install openssl and check your OpenSSL configuration:

brew install openssl
export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/include
export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/lib
export DEP_OPENSSL_INCLUDE=`brew --prefix openssl`/include