How about dear readers, today I will take the opportunity to share with you a great download manager for our Linux terminal, it is Aria2. Aria2 is a lightweight download manager with support for HTTP / HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
Aria2 is light so it does not require a lot of memory to be able to work. This manager has several features among which I can highlight multi-threaded downloads With which it allows us to use several connections to be able to use our bandwidth with greater benefit.
Remote Control aria2 supports the RPC interface to control the aria2 process. The supported interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket) and XML-RPC.
Aria2 also allows us to define the bandwidth that we are going to useOn the other hand, we can also perform the simultaneous download of several files, only with a single command.
How to install Aria2 on Ubuntu?
Aria2 is within the official Ubuntu repositories, if you use any Ubuntu derivative, don't worry, you can also install it with the following command:
sudo apt install aria2
How to use Aria2?
To download a file from the web:
aria2c http://ejemplo/archivo.jpg
To download a file from 2 sources:
aria2c http://ftp/b.jpg ftp://servidorftp/f.jpg
We can also download a file using 2 connections per host:
aria2c -x2 http://ejemplo/archivo.iso
To set a bandwidth limit that Aria2 can use to perform a download we use the following argument:
aria2c --max-overall-download-limit=3M http://ejemplo/tuarchivo.rar
Where 3M we can substitute it for the amount of bandwidth that we want to allocate, for example bytes (B), kilobytes (K) or megabytes (M).
BitTorrent:
aria2c http://ejemplo/archivo.torrent
BitTorrent magnet URI:
aria2c 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
metallink:
aria2c http://example/file.metalink
Download the URIs found in the text file:
aria2c -i uris.txt
You can consult their wiki to learn a little more about the uses you can give to this manager.
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