Questions tagged [aria2]
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
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Automate fast download
When you click on a file to download, can you make it so Aria2 (or Axel) automatically accelerates the download process, without going to the terminal to download? Also, the file I am attempting to ...
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How to finish downloading a partially downloaded normal file with aria2?
There is this file that I'm downloading but the server I'm downloading it from reduces my download speed as time passes so I have to restart my download again and again after a few minutes. I've ...
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Downloading files faster using aria2 with multiple threads opened from the start of the file
I have a special situation: I want to download a movie and at the same time watch it, but the problem is I want to download it using multiple threads so that it will be downloaded faster. However, ...
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How can I automate multiple Aria2 commands to run consecutively?
I'm trying to execute a command or script that will run a list of aria2 commands consecutively.
I've tried writing a bat/cmd file for it but it always provides an error, specifically: [...
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Running Aria2 commands from a bat file
I'm currently using Aria2, a downloading software that you use via cmd, to download a list of content.
It requires you to CD to the directory where you have a parameter file that outlines your ...
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Aria2c Inactive torrents blocks the upstream queue
Lets suppose I have 10 torrents added to the aria2c & I have set a maximum of 2 simultaneous downloads. When queue starts 2 will be in the progress & 8 will be in queue.
Due to reason such as ...
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check aria2 download progress by program
I have a script that crawls a torrent site and download them automatically.
Certain torrent takes forever to download for lack of seeding.
How can i programatically detect such situation and
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What is gid in the aria2 download report?
I'm trying to make sense of aria2. There is a column in aria2 download report called gid which is made of 6 alphanumeric characters. What is the purpose of this column? Is it some kind of identity?? ...
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Format console readout in Aria2
I'm using aria2 to perform basic downloads. In the documentation it specifies the console readout format to be:
[#2089b0 400.0KiB/33.2MiB(1%) &...
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aria2c to download and extract .tar.bz2 file
I am using aria2c to download a .tar.bz2 and trying to extract it in the same command. I can download the file but not extract it. Thank you :).
aria2c -x8 -l log.txt -c -d /xx/xx/xxx --use-head=...
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Aria2 rpc secret token format?
Aria2c rpc user-password authorization marked as deprecated, it is suggested to use security token, but what is the format of that token? Is it like password or what?
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aria2c protocol error with download directory
I am trying to us aria2 to download some large files and getting below protocol error that I can not seem to fix. Thank you :).
aria2c -x 3 -c -d -l mydir --http-user "xxx" --http-passwd "xxx" xxx://...
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aria2c: very slow to download even with multiple connections
versions: aria2-1.19.3-win-64bit-build1
I have an url to a file (80mb) which with other download tools I can have as many as 32 simultaneous connection to the server and download the file with 2mb/s ...
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Command line download manager that supports batch descriptors to download multiple files?
In the Firefox plugin donwloadthemall if yo use the batch descriptor, let's say http://.../image[000:999].gif, will start downloading all files:
image000.gif
image001.gif
image002.gif
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image0997....
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How can I make lynx to associate magnet: links with aria2c?
I use lynx, but everytime I need to open a magnet: link I need to save it and then, get out of lynx and then cat lynx_bookmarks.html copy the link and the pass it to the command line as a parameter ...
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Fast way to download many small webpages?
I need to download lots of small pages as fast as possible. Average size for one page is 3kb. There are millions of pages. First, I tried curl but it was way too slow, probably because it was waiting ...
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How do I download an entire folder with aria2?
Aria2 is a great wget replacement, having a lot of features like multi-threading, split download,download resume, etc
But having all this features and option can make it hard to do some specific ...
