Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust

Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by bmurphy1976 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:48PM (#13451151)

If you are serious, you can alternately use aria2 https://aria2.github.io/. Aria2 has been around for a long time and is quite robust and feature complete. It makes a compelling replacement for curl and wget.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by Jerry2 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:57PM (#13451185)

Another accelerator is Axel [0]. While aria2 supports all kinds of protocols, Axel supports Axel HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS. Both are excellent and I've used aria2 for a very long time.

[0] https://wilmer.gaa.st/main.php/axel.html

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by therein on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:23AM (#13454114)

I love axel. Whenever I have issues with video streaming due to the website having per client connection throttling, I extract the media src from the page and do axel -n 32 <url> and saturate my downlink (200mbit+).

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by bjblazkowicz on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:37AM (#13455129)

Aria2 can't manage recursive downloading. Wget can, but wget does not come with a multithreaded option.

I'm still looking for something that can do both.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by ReverseCold on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:46PM (#13452054)

I found out about this a week ago, super useful for downloading from multiple very slow mirrors at the same time.

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