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So excited it moved to github and away from SourceForge

By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything and is also the fastest bit torrent app I have ever used.

EDIT: I also use aria2c for the backend of my Arch Linux package manager pacman. Gives me multiple of connections per host and speeds up updates by at least two folds. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192072

2nd EDIT: Windows works but I have had better luck with uGet portable app for Windows.

http://ugetdm.com/downloads-windows

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this pacman + aria2 is awesome. had no idea that was even possible.

The only issue I had with this setup was that if a download got cancelled, it would start failing throwing package integrity errors because aria downloads directly to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package_name.tar.xz rather than a .part file which is copied upon completion. The built-in downloader of pacman ensures this is done right.

"By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything"

Just to clarify, when you say "anything" do you mean things like soundcloud and youtube ?

Is this an alternative to a tool like youtube-dl ?

Good question, I'd like to know too.

aria is also controllable by Python via XML-RPC - seen that in the docs, on my stack to try, could be useful.

aria2c supports HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP and Torrent/Metalink.

Many applications (youtube-dl through --external-downloader) can use aria2c as a "downloader backend".

aria2c + https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 offers a very fast, portable and simple download manager.

Probably not quite what you meant (since it still require youtube-dl), but youtube-dl has built-in support for downloading using aria2c as a backend.

    youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I now have a new alias thank you!

uGet can use aria2 as its backend too

aria2c is the backend for uGet

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