Download Accelerator is a really simple (and did anybody mention free??!!?) download accelerator written in Python that uses multi-part downloading to speed up your downloads. It even supports unstable connections by continuing where it left off if your connection is reset at any point of time. The only feature lacking is a real-time progress indicator but you don't really need it when your download is fast, right?
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Configure in
dl_man.py: -
The default number of connections (e.g.
default_conns = 8) -
Your temporary download directory (e.g.
tmp_dir = '/tmp/', to store the file parts) -
Your final download directory (e.g.
dl_dir = '/home/ubuntu/', to store the combined file) -
Pass your URL as a parameter to the script as follows:
$ python dlman.py http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip Downloading part 6 to /tmp/1GB.zip_5 Downloading part 4 to /tmp/1GB.zip_3 Downloading part 1 to /tmp/1GB.zip_0 Downloading part 5 to /tmp/1GB.zip_4 Downloading part 7 to /tmp/1GB.zip_6 Downloading part 3 to /tmp/1GB.zip_2 Downloading part 2 to /tmp/1GB.zip_1 Downloading part 8 to /tmp/1GB.zip_7 Downloaded part 6 to /tmp/1GB.zip_5 Downloaded part 4 to /tmp/1GB.zip_3 Downloaded part 5 to /tmp/1GB.zip_4 Downloaded part 1 to /tmp/1GB.zip_0 Downloaded part 7 to /tmp/1GB.zip_6 Downloaded part 2 to /tmp/1GB.zip_1 Downloaded part 8 to /tmp/1GB.zip_7 Downloaded part 3 to /tmp/1GB.zip_2 All parts downloaded. Joining files... Joining complete. File saved in /home/ubuntu/1GB.zip -
You can also pass in the number of connections (which will override the default) as a command line argument as follows:
$ python dl_man.py http://download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip 2 Downloading part 2 to /tmp/5MB.zip_1 Downloading part 1 to /tmp/5MB.zip_0 Downloaded part 2 to /tmp/5MB.zip_1 Downloaded part 1 to /tmp/5MB.zip_0 All parts downloaded. Joining files... Joining complete. File saved in /home/ubuntu/5MB.zip -
Enjoy!