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A parallel downloader using curl. It splits a large file into multiple of segments and download them concurrently using HTTP Range header (multiple "get"). This likely increase download speed particularly when the TCP connections is not able to saturate available bandwidth in the path due to some reasons which inclueds:
npm install -g mget
Usage: mget [options] <url>
Options:
-c, --concurrency <num> Concurrency. (default: 0 - auto)
-o, --output <pathname> Output file path.)
-h, --help output usage information
mget -c 4 http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip
Here's an example results of the performance increase.
Concurrency: 1
$ time mget -c 1 http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip
Progress: 100%
real 0m10.607s
user 0m0.242s
sys 0m0.122s
Concurrency: 4
$ time mget -c 4 http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip
Progress: 100% 100% 100% 100%
real 0m6.848s
user 0m0.272s
sys 0m0.140s
Concurrency: 8
$ time mget -c 8 http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip
Progress: 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
real 0m5.668s
user 0m0.309s
sys 0m0.170s
You can use this module inside your application.
TODO: more details
Please see ./bin/cli.js for your reference.
FAQs
Parallel downloader powered by curl.
We found that mget demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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