pySmartDL
strives to be a full-pleged smart download manager for Python. Main features:
- Built-in download acceleration (with the
multipart downloading technique <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93642/how-do-download-accelerators-work>
_). - Mirrors support.
- Pause/Unpause feature.
- Hash checking.
- Non-blocking, shows progress bar, download speed and eta.
- Python 3 Support
- Downloads: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pySmartDL/
- Documentation: http://itaybb.github.io/pySmartDL/
- Project page: https://github.com/iTaybb/pySmartDL/
- Bugs and Issues: https://github.com/iTaybb/pySmartDL/issues
Using pip
Make sure python-pip is installed on you system. If you are using virtualenv, then pip is alredy installed into environments created by virtualenv. Run pip to install pySmartDL:
``pip install pySmartDL``
From Source
The pySmartDL package is installed from source using distutils in the usual way. Download the `source distribution <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pySmartDL>`_ first. Unpack the source zip and run the following to install the package site-wide:
``python setup.py install``
Download is as simple as creating an instance and launching it::
import os
from pySmartDL import SmartDL
url = "http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/7zip/9.20/7za920.zip"
dest = "C:\\Downloads\\" # or '~/Downloads/' on linux
obj = SmartDL(url, dest)
obj.start()
# [*] 0.23 Mb / 0.37 Mb @ 88.00Kb/s [##########--------] [60%, 2s left]
path = obj.get_dest()
- Python 2.6 or greater.
- Python 3.0 or greater.
- For versions before Python 3.2, the
futures backport <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures>
_ package is also required.
Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Itay Brandes.