I abandoned this project almost 3 years ago when I also stopped using Python. Please use tools like curl, aria2, wget for file downloads using CLI.
Also consider using requests library as a Python package alternative.
pget offers a simple yet functional API that enables you to save large files from bandwidth limited servers such as Google Drive, Yandex Disk, etc.
Basically, Downloader operates asynchronously and creates multithreads that connect to specified url from different ranges.
You can install pget from PyPI using pip
pip install pget
Also you can clone this repository and install it using setuptools
git clone https://github.com/halilozercan/pget
cd pget
python setup.py install
Pget is essentially designed to be a python module, but it also provides a nice executable to cater your download needs quickly.
PGet - A tool for fast downloads
positional arguments:
http://filedownload.url/path?args=given
File URL
filename.txt File name
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--chunks CHUNKS, -C CHUNKS
Chunk count
This is the output of well-known argument parser of python. For example
pget "http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4" bunny.mp4 -C 8
In this example, we download big buck bunny video to bunny.mp4 file from 8 different ranges.
If we want to do this in a python code
from pget.down import Downloader
downloader = Downloader(url, filename, chunk_count)
downloader.start()
downloader.subscribe(callback, callback_threshold)
downloader.wait_for_finish()
- by using subscribe, we get a callback from downloader whenever
callback_thresholdkilobytes of data is downloaded. - start and wait_for_finish is like starting a thread and waiting to join. You can also run pget downloader in sync mod by
start_sync() - During the download, downloader object is updated regularly. So you can use it to get feedback in your application.