aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-linedownload utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP,BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-inJSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces.
Download
Download version 1.35.0.There you can download source distribution and binaries for OS X, Windows and Android.
Golang setup in Mac OSX with HomeBrew. Set `GOPATH` and `GOROOT` variables in zshell, fish or bash. mirror go get golang.org/dl/go1.N. Contribute to golang/dl development by creating an account on GitHub. Install GoLang on Mac OS. Download the Mac OS Go Installer and run the package. Follow the steps and verify the installation using 'go version' command. Install GoLang on Mac OS.
The legacy releases earlier than 1.19.1 are availablehere.
Features
Multi-Connection Download.aria2 can download a filefrom multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize yourmaximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your downloadexperience.
Lightweight.aria2 doesn’t require much memory and CPU time. When disk cache isoff, the physical memory usage is typically 4MiB (normalHTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage inBitTorrent with download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%.
Fully Featured BitTorrent Client.All features you want in BitTorrent client are available: DHT,PEX, Encryption, Magnet URI, Web-Seeding, Selective Downloads,Local Peer Discovery and UDP tracker.
Metalink Enabled.aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format(aka Metalink v4),Metalink version 3 andMetalink/HTTP.Metalink offers the file verification, HTTP/FTP/SFTP/BitTorrent integrationand the various configurations for language, location, OS, etc.
Remote Control.aria2 supports RPC interface to control the aria2 process.The supported interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket)and XML-RPC.
Usage Examples
Command-line scares you off? No, aria2 is really easy to use!!
Download from WEB:
Download from 2 sources:
Download using 2 connections per host:
BitTorrent:
BitTorrent Magnet URI:
Update Golang Mac
Metalink:
Download URIs found in text file:
Related Projects
- apt-metalink: Faster package downloads for Debian/Ubuntu
- powerpill: Pacman wrapper for parallel and segmented downloads.
- python3-aria2jsonrpc: A wrapper class around Aria2’s JSON RPC interface.
- aria2.js: JavaScript (browsers and Node.js) library and cli for aria2 RPC
UI Frontends
- webui-aria2: Web browser interface for aria2 (2012 GSOC project)
- uGet: the Linux Download Manager
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (atyour option) any later version.
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