aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supportsHTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPCand XML-RPC interfaces.
Features
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Multi-Connection Download. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience.
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Lightweight. aria2 doesn’t require much memory and CPU time. When disk cache is off, the physical memory usage is typically 4MiB (normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%.
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Fully Featured BitTorrent Client. All features you want in BitTorrent client are available: DHT, PEX, Encryption, Magnet URI, Web-Seeding, Selective Downloads, Local Peer Discovery and UDP tracker.
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Metalink Enabled. aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4), Metalink version 3 and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification, HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent integration and the various configurations for language, location, OS, etc.
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Remote Control. aria2 supports RPC interface to control the aria2 process. The supported interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket) and XML-RPC.
Command-line scares you off? No, aria2 is really easy to use!! Find usage examples here and documentation here[EN], here[RU] and here[PT].
Made a shared build (static failed and I don't want to know why) with support of everything listed. Maybe will make a package with light web server and webui-aria2.
Comments
Mystery47
Fri, 2015/05/08 - 23:00
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Absolutely awesome download-utility. Very nice to use via terminal. Simple and easy utility what i have waited. Thanks.
coderus
Thu, 2015/05/07 - 14:39
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Thanks, i was too lazy to build it myself :)
BloodyFoxy
Thu, 2015/05/07 - 22:47
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No problem.
BTW I messed with libsqlite till my phone stopped working. I even coudn't reinstall it.