Linux Download Managers

Posted by martin on 26 Sep 2002.

Review of Linux download managers.

This is not intended as the most complete list of download managers for Linux/Unix, it just comprises the applications I have used.

WGet

This is the most powerful tool. It has lots of command-line options and configurations available to the run control file. Because of its power and customization it can be intimidating to new users though; it doesn't have a graphical interface.

WGet's support for recursive download and mirroring is very good. It is primarily intended for background downloading - I couldn't find any way to force it re-read its configuration while fetching files.

Download WGet, I also have made a collection of WGet shell scripts.

Web Downloader for X (nt)

A graphical download manager similar to the Windows apps, it can intercept URIs from the clipboard and display a download basket.

The main advantage over WGet is that you can set the maximum download speed during download which is impossible with WGet.

It also supports FTP mirror searching, scheduling, and recursive downloading (not as good as WGet though).

Download nt.

Prozilla

Prozilla supports downloading one file through multiple connections and is the fastest at it (of course the server has to support resumes).

It has a ncurses interface but you only have a few shortcuts available, most commonly you will use it from the command line.

Feedback

If you have experience with a download utility I haven't covered or a different opinion for those listed don't hesitate to share your thoughts.

Comments

download
by MRINMOY (mrinmoy_iit@hotmail.com) on 8 Jan 2003 7:59am GMT

cheeking

current wget supports 2GB only
by ac (ac@foo.com) on 28 Jan 2003 11:24pm GMT

The current (Jan 03) version of wget does not support files greater than 2GB.

There is a patch to support large files, but you cannot locate prebuilt rpms with this, yet. Just an fyi.

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by wedeka (wedeka@yours.com) on 10 Mar 2003 9:40am GMT

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source code
by srinivas (srinu_nazia_nazu@indiatimes.com) on 20 Mar 2003 5:27am GMT

sir,

can u please send the source code for down load manager or the related projects code to my e mail id

Thank's
by Sandy (bovany@yahoo.com) on 9 May 2003 4:28pm GMT

Thank' for your work!

GTM
by Vasile Alaiba (alaiba@ozland.ro) on 17 Jun 2003 3:09am GMT

What about the Gnome Transfer Manager? Except for multithreading/segmented download, it has about everything one needs.

source code
by saravanan (saravanan_cbl@rediffmail.com) on 29 Jun 2003 5:00am GMT

can u send the source code for down load manager or useful shell script for network admin to my e mail id

demand for help
by Anoop (anoop1983_in@yahoo.co.in) on 27 Jul 2003 6:53pm GMT

sir ,

could you please send the source code

of the download manager or related subjects to my e mail id .

Another Download Manager
by Brian Popp (bpopp@midsouth.rr.com.no.spam) on 30 Jul 2003 4:25pm GMT

Another download manager that I've found which works pretty good is called Axel. It's very similar to wget and it supports resumes and multiple simultaneous connections. I haven't used Prozilla, so I can't compare the two.

bpopp - www.bpopp.net

larger than 2 GB File -- lol
by () on 12 Sep 2003 10:57am GMT

who the hell is downloading a file larger than 2gb? i think thats no bug!

wget supports download speed limiting
by () on 20 Sep 2003 12:57pm GMT

just user wget --limit-rate=4k ... to set maximum download speed for wget.

Admin
by Reiss (reissedwin@yahoo.co.uk) on 20 Nov 2003 6:44pm GMT

How you become admin.

i know some people think i am stupid cause i ask but i really wanna know

EVERYTHING

large file
by bing (bs438@yahoo.com) on 7 Jan 2004 6:32pm GMT

I need to download a file about 2.7gb. Does anyone know how to do it? Using wget I only get about 77% of the file. I am begging for any help.

large file
by () on 26 Jan 2004 5:08pm GMT

Have you tried curl?

I need a scrip for port 23 validation
by () on 7 Feb 2004 11:12am GMT

I need a scrip for port 23 validation

Linux
by kiki-lala (kikilala@yahoo.com) on 19 Mar 2004 3:53am GMT

Can Somebody tell me how use linux command to create user???

RE: Linux - add user
by Engie (engie20@hotmail.com) on 4 Jun 2004 1:47pm GMT

from root terminal:

# useradd [username] [password]

(the # is the prompt that you have)

YOU MUST HAVE ROOT ACCESS/PRIVILAGES TO USE THIS COMMAND

multiple auto feed
by Miklos (hofy1@tyahoo.com) on 22 Jun 2004 5:43am GMT

Hi,

I look for a dowload manager with multiple auto feed feture. Like in FlashGet. Yes, linux versions can read from clip board one by one but so far I could not get any with being able to process several links from a copied web page / like 20 hperlink, URLs / at the same time... /

Any advice?

Thanks,

Larger than 2GB: DVDs
by JimD (jimd@starshine.org) on 12 Aug 2004 1:12am GMT

Umm, Fedora Core 2 users who want to burn one DVD-R vs. 4 CDRs would be the most obvious.

Eventually KNOPPIX 3.5 or some later DVD version will also make it to the 'net and people will want to 'wget' that.

Hello Sir
by Alok (thatsalok@gmail.com) on 23 Aug 2004 9:45am GMT

I am looking for source code of download manager for windows,any help is greatly apreciated.

thanks in adavance for your help

Alok Gupta

Visit me At http://www.thisisalok.tk

send me link to download manger
by Nair VIneet (nvintt@rediffmail.com) on 17 Nov 2004 5:58am GMT

Can any one send me the link to download manager that i can use to set up in linux as in am having problem ind downloading.