aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience. 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 a download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%. aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4), Metalink version 3, and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification, HTTP/FTP/SFTP/BitTorrent integration and various configurations for language, location, OS, etc.

Features

  • Multi-Connection Download
  • Lightweight
  • Fully Featured BitTorrent Client
  • Metalink Enabled
  • Remote Control
  • aria2 is really easy to use

Project Samples

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Categories

HTTP Servers, HTTP Clients

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ HTTP Servers, C++ HTTP Clients

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2023-05-08
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