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yoDownet the great downloader of the gerenation is available for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint or any other *.deb/Debian package based distro out there.

Of course it's not just a distributed deb file, but it's available on Launchpad and a PPA <3, awesome!

Here's the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~alir3z4/+archive/yodownet

To install yoDownet:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alir3z4/yodownet
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install yodownet... [read more](/p/yodownet/blog/2014/03/yodownet-is-available-for-ubuntudebian/)

A great news, I'm super excited to announce that yoDownet latest version has been packaged and is available for OS/2.

Many thanks to Elbert Pol to make this happen <3

You can get it from www.netlabs.org ftp:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/yoDownet-2014.03.9-os2.7z

yoDownet version 2014.03.09 is out ;)

A serious funny bug fix for Content-Length=0 files plus new translation has been added, which is Czech.

ChangeLog:

* Fix #56: Crash when downloading from bitbucket.
* Add Czech translation.
* Little code cleanupinto.

Get yoDownet-2014.03.09 source now! (sourceforge.net)

yoDownet version 2014.02.23 is out ;)

In this release, Dutch translation has been added to project plus yoDownet has a new logo designed by Amir!!! who's amir? nobody knows yet.
Plus some cleanup on the project and more localization has been made.

ChangeLog

* Feature #49: Remove yoMessage class.
* Feature #50: Remove PrefDataBaseWidget.
* Feature #51: Add new logo designed by Amir!!!.
* Update readme with pkgs, build sections.
* Fix #52: QUuid initialization error.
* Fix removing URL from mainwindow by UUID lookup.
* Add Dutch translation.... [read more](/p/yodownet/blog/2014/02/yodownet-version-20140223-released/)

yoDownet version 2014.02.22.1 is out ;)

Here's a bug-fix release ;)

ChangeLog:

* Fix #47: File naming on redirect downloads.
* Set default download arguments on downloader engine.
* Resuming downloads by their UUID, URL, fileName attributes to prevent file name clash.

Get yoDownet-2014.02.22.1 source now! (sourceforge.net)

yoDownet version 2014.02.22 just released.

In this version is Qt4 compatible against compile/build/run/fly, the other new feature is handling HTTP redirects in the downloader engine.

ChangeLog

* Feature #43: Qt4 backward compatibility.
* Fix #39: Handle HTTP redirect.
* Feature #36: Add a simple README file.

Get yoDownet-2014.02.22 source now! (sourceforge.net)

After almost 2 years of hacking around this small project, finally I made yoDownet to go database free.

This version does't come with new features but couple of bug-fixes and new translations. The main thing here is yoDownet doesn't require any database to save/load its download list. No SQL involved, damn SQL, die!

Also consider this is a really dirty version, you may experience scary bugs and crashes but hopefully you can run yoDownet from command line and watch its logger output which can help us a lot in tracing bugs and eventually fixing them.... read more

yoDownet Linux distro package is available on Frugalware Linux package repository.

Available builds

• yodownet Arch: i686
• yodownet Arch: x86_64

Yesterday i've moved the source code git repository to github.
It's maybe just for testing for a while, and maybe i'll leave it there completely.

• People are always asking me if I know yoDownet.

There was a mistake that I've done about yoDownet, And it was about using database to keep some sort of details about downloads.
Database means schema, and schema means limit.

I'm thinking about using setting files to keep this stuff and I have to get ride of any database that speaks SQL or in another word RDBMS. Just look at [resource/sql][resource-sql]... read more

yoDownet version 2012.05.11 released.

Just couple of minor changes which are mentioned in ChangeLog bellow ;)

But there is also an important change for build yoDownet that is there is no more need for extra Paths defining on qmake time anymore, it's reverted it to simple days ;).

Changes from ChangeLog - 2012-05-11

• [task-#30-clean-installation][ticket-30]: make installation cleaner and more simple.
• [task-#31-project-dir-restructure][ticket-31]: move dialogs to dialog dir ;)... read more

yoDownet version 2012.05.07 released.

In this release cool feature added, such as messaging eco system, the messaging part is basic and simple now and just handle the core purpose messaging which is communicating with user in the direct way that i choose is better to be by System Tray Icon.

Changes from ChangeLog - 2012-05-07

• [task-#28-messaging-ecosystem][ticket-28]: Implemented couple of class to handle messaging and communicating with user
• [bug-#29-encoded-url-validation][ticket-29]: any standard URI will be valid now!... read more

yoDownet version 2012.04.29 released.

yoDownet, the downloader of the ages [released|is out] :D
But seriously i forgotten something about this downloader that is Url validation, So in this version Url validation is implemented ;)

Just Url Validation which is so so so so I don't know important.

Changes from ChangeLog - 2012-04-29

• [task-#26-urls-validation][ticket-27]: Create a couple of class to validate the entered urls.
• [task-#27-write-tests-for-UrlValidator-class][ticket-27]: UrlValidator class well-tested somehow, but maybe the testig way will changed in the future releases.... read more

yoDownet version 2012.04.26 released.

Okay, yoDownet version 2012.04.26 is out. In fact i should released yesterday but i been waiting for new features to add but i find-out waiting isn't healthy for me, why not new release now?

The main added feature is System Tray icon, that will gave user ability to hide the yoDownet MainWindow and add a new download by middleClicing on the systray icon and also the downloaded shouldn't be always on the screen, in fact the main part of downloading is that you gave url to it and leave it alone ;)... read more

yoDownet version 2012.04.24 released

Changes ;)

• Added safe Pause/Resume download.
• Added Multi-Urls at time, by new Add new Url dialog ;)
• Added Remove Download from list.
• Added Remove File From file-system.
• Fix the progress bar issue on resume downloads.

Changes from ChangeLog :|

• [bug-#5-issue-with-resume][ticket-5]: Fixed, now progress and remaining time will be correct.
• [task-#14-import-multi-urls-at-time][ticket-14]: So by the current url add dialog, it's possible to add many urls at time.
• [bug-#15-yoDownet-could-now-find-the-translations-file][ticket-15]: Fixed, by the defined Pre-Processor at qmake time.
• [task-#16-push-the-remove-and-remove-the-file][ticket-16]: Remove the File from the file-system and database.
• [task-#17-make-installation-little-bit-more-handy][ticket-17]: At the QMake time some Pre-Precessor variable have to be defined.
• [task-#18-remove-addNewDlToUrlsTable-from-MainWindow][ticket-18]: Remove that useless and buggy function and implemented inside the update urlView part.
• [task-#19-code-cleaning-on-downloader-yoDownet-class][ticket-19]: Some FIXME and variable names mess solved, remove auto keyword.
• [bug-#20-make-urls.id-null][ticket-20]: Fix the urls.null not allowed bug, and Re-Strcuture the database and added a new field.
• [task-#21-remove-download-from-the-download-list-only][ticket-21]: Now it's possible to remove the download just from the urls tale view|list .... read more

Okay, yesterday I implemented safe pause for downloads and committed it to the [git repo][gitRepo]. Then I went to the [tickets][tickets] and changed the [task-#1][pauseTask] status to "fixed."

But before switching branches from [task-#1-pause-functionality][taks-#1-branch] to [master][masterBranch], I had to stash [stashGit] some really nice new changes.
They’ll be committed to the remote Git repo in the next few days ;)... read more

yoDownet is now multilingual. The New Language is: Estonian
In this release the are a lot of changes on the source code. If you go on the [git][gitRepo] you will see the project structure is completely different. This is great for making the project extendable, And it's actually [java|python]-style ;)

Here some changes From ChangeLog

• [task-#13-translation-by-transifex][task-#13]: make the project translatable and also multi-lingual.
• Re-Strcuture all of the project directory in [Java|Python]-Style.
• Add Trasnlation tab in the AboutDialog.
• Couple of utility classes added for utility sake.... read more

Okay, it's been a month since I last committed anything, but I have a little time now to start again and implement or complete Pause/Resume. There’s also an Estonian translation for the project that I’ll include in yoDownet.

2012-02-29 Alireza Savand

• [task-#3-addRemoveFun][1]: Add remove functionality.
• [task-#8-database-migration/schema][2]: So db schema will change in the future, why not have a schema/migration tool ;)
• [task-#9-multiple-request-at-once][3]: Okay, now user can execute multiple command/operation at once.
• [task-#11-extending-downloads-table-headers][4]: Making download's able more customizable but initialized.
• [task-#12-add-changelog][5]: Just done!... read more

2012-02-25 Alireza Savand

• bug-fixes (#2) yodownet.cpp
• add ChangeLog file

I added a screenshot to the project

Okay, just for the record: there’s no command-line *nix downloader as a backend. From my side, developing a GUI frontend for command-line applications without any provided library is a waste of time—don’t just go and execute a command and retrieve its output; it’s like playing with your head :|. So the new change is simply about using our own downloader and handling minimal support for concurrent downloading. Hmm, nothing about a changelog or anything like that :D

2012.02.10 is the first release of yoDownload.
This version is actually the basic version—it's very simple but functional.

So yoDownet has reached 100 commits!
It’s not a big deal, but it means I’m going to release the first version in two days!
Still, it’s kind of depressing—a downloader with no standout features compared to those giant-ass downloaders out there.

Recently, after contacting the Axel developers, I didn’t get any valuable results.
I looked into the aria2 project and found out they have an XML-RPC API for working with aria2.
I opened a topic in the aria2 forum to gather some information about it, so I decided to choose aria2 as the backend downloader.
I’m a little busy with schoolwork (ugh), but I’ll start developing again soon.