Pget - parallel file download client

Description

Download using a parallel requests

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap Code-Hex/pget
brew install pget

go get

Install

$ go get github.com/Code-Hex/pget/cmd/pget

Update

$ go get -u github.com/Code-Hex/pget/cmd/pget

Synopsis

% pget -p 6 URL

Options

  Options:
  -h,  --help                      print usage and exit
  -v,  --version                   display the version of pget and exit
  -p,  --procs <num>               split ratio to download file
  -o,  --output <PATH|FILENAME>    output file to PATH or FILENAME
  -t,  --timeout <seconds>         timeout of checking request in seconds
  --check-update                   check if there is update available
  --trace                          display detail error messages

Pget vs Wget

URL: http://ubuntutym2.u-toyama.ac.jp/ubuntu/16.04/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Using

time wget http://ubuntutym2.u-toyama.ac.jp/ubuntu/16.04/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso
time pget -p 6 http://ubuntutym2.u-toyama.ac.jp/ubuntu/16.04/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Results

wget   3.92s user 23.52s system 3% cpu 13:35.24 total
pget -p 6   10.54s user 34.52s system 25% cpu 2:56.93 total

Binary

You can download from here

Author

codehex