Pget - The fastest file download client
Description
Multi-Connection Download using parallel requests.
- Fast
- Resumable
- Cross-compiled (windows, linux, macOS)
This is an example to download linux kernel. It will be finished between 15s.
Disclaimer
This program comes with no warranty. You must use this program at your own risk.
Note
- Using a large number of connections to a single URL can lead to DOS attacks.
- The case is increasing that if you use multiple connections to 1 URL does not increase the download speed with the spread of CDNs.
- I recommend to use multiple mirrors simultaneously for faster downloads (And the number of connections is 1 for each).
Installation
Homebrew
$ brew install pget
Go
$ go install github.com/Code-Hex/pget/cmd/pget@latest
Synopsis
This example will be used 2 connections per URL.
$ pget -p 2 MIRROR1 MIRROR2 MIRROR3
If you have created such as this file
cat list.txt
MIRROR1
MIRROR2
MIRROR3
You can do this
cat list.txt | pget -p 2
Options
Options:
-h, --help print usage and exit
-p, --procs <num> the number of connections for a single URL (default 1)
-o, --output <filename> output file to <filename>
-t, --timeout <seconds> timeout of checking request in seconds
-u, --user-agent <agent> identify as <agent>
-r, --referer <referer> identify as <referer>
--check-update check if there is update available
--trace display detail error messages
Pget vs Wget
URL: https://mirror.internet.asn.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/21.10/ubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Using
time wget https://mirror.internet.asn.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/21.10/ubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso
time pget -p 6 https://mirror.internet.asn.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/21.10/ubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Results
wget 3.92s user 23.52s system 3% cpu 13:35.24 total
pget -p 6 10.54s user 34.52s system 25% cpu 2:56.93 total
wget 13:35.24 total, pget -p 6 2:56.93 total (6x faster)
Binary
You can download from here