httpeat

httpeat is a recursive, parallel and multi-mirror/multi-proxy HTTP downloader

Features:

• parses HTTP index pages and HTTP URLs list, provided as arguments or from text file
• recursive and parallel crawling of index pages
• download in parallel multiple URLs, with configurable tasks count
• fast interrupt and resume mechanism, even on hundreds of thousands files directories as it remembers where indexing and downloads were interrupted
• robust retry and resumes transfers automatically
• supports downloading in parallel from multiple mirrors
• supports downloading in parallel from multiple proxies
• best suited for bandwidth limited servers

Usage

usage: httpeat.py [-h] [-A USER_AGENT] [-d] [-i] [-I] [-k] [-m MIRROR] [-P] [-q] [-s SKIP] [-t TIMEOUT] [-T] [-v] [-w WAIT] [-x PROXY] [-z TASKS_COUNT] session_name [targets ...]

httpeat v0.3 - a recursive, parallel and multi-mirror/multi-proxy HTTP downloader

positional arguments:
  session_name          name of the session
  targets               to create a session, provide URLs to HTTP index or files, or path of a source txt file

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -A USER_AGENT, --user-agent USER_AGENT
                        user agent
  -d, --download-only   only download already listed files
  -i, --index-only      only list all files recursively, do not download
  -I, --index-debug     drop in interactive ipython shell during indexing
  -k, --no-ssl-verify   do no verify the SSL certificate in case of HTTPS connection
  -m MIRROR, --mirror MIRROR
                        mirror definition to load balance requests, eg. "http://host1/data/ mirrors http://host2/data/"
                        can be specified multiple times.
                        only valid uppon session creation, afterwards you must modify session mirrors.txt.
  -P, --no-progress     disable progress bar
  -q, --quiet           quiet output, show only warnings
  -s SKIP, --skip SKIP  skip rule: dl-(path|size-gt):[pattern]. can be specified multiple times.
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        in seconds, default to {TO_DEFAULT}
  -T, --no-index-touch  do not create empty .download files uppon indexing
  -v, --verbose         verbose output, specify twice for http request debug
  -w WAIT, --wait WAIT  wait after request for n to n*3 seconds, for each task
  -x PROXY, --proxy PROXY
                        proxy URL: "(http[s]|socks5)://<host>:<port>[ tasks-count=N]"
                        can be specified multiple times to loadbalance downloads between proxies.
                        optional tasks-count overrides the golbal tasks-count.
                        only valid uppon session creation, afterwards you must modify session proxies.txt.
  -z TASKS_COUNT, --tasks-count TASKS_COUNT
                        number of parallel tasks, defaults to 3

Example usage

• crawl HTTP index page and linked files

httpeat antennes https://ferme.ydns.eu/antennes/bands/2024-10/

• resume after interrupt

httpeat antennes

• crawl HTTP index page, using mirror from host2

httpeat bigfiles https://host1/data/ -m "https://host2/data/ mirrors https://host1/data/"

• crawl HTTP index page, using 2 proxies

httpeat bigfiles https://host1/data/ -x "socks4://192.168.0.2:3000" -x "socks4://192.168.0.3:3000"

• crawl 2 HTTP index directory pages

httpeat bigfiles https://host1/data/one/ https://host1/data/six/

• download 3 files

httpeat bigfiles https://host1/data/bigA.iso https://host1/data/six/bigB.iso https://host1/otherdata/bigC.iso

• download 3 files with URLs from txt file

cat <<-_EOF > ./list.txt
https://host1/data/bigA.iso
https://host1/data/six/bigB.iso
https://host1/otherdata/bigC.iso
_EOF
httpeat bigfiles ./list.txt

Session directory structure

<session_name>/
   data/
      ...downloaded files...
   log.txt
   state_download.csv
   state_index.csv
   targets.txt
   mirrors.txt
   proxies.txt

Progress output

progress output: unless -P / --no-progress is specified, a live progress output is displayed bellow logs on several bars:

• dl-<Mirror><proxy><task_number> per-file download progress bars, defaults to 3 parrallel tasks. will be duplicated per mirror (uppercase letter 'A' to 'Z') and per proxy (lowercase letter 'a' to 'z')
• dl downloader global progress bar, based on total downloaded size, and also shows downloaded file count and e
• idx indexer global progress bar, based on number of pages indexed and e

Note that several indexer tasks are also running in parallel, but they don't have their own progress bar as their individual tasks are supposedely quickly finished.

State files format

In session directory, the files state_{{download,index}}.csv respect the bellow format.

type,url,date,size,state

• type
  • f: file
  • d: directory
• url full url of the file or directory to download
• date when indexing, modification date of files to download is parsed from HTTP index page
• size when indexing, size of files to download is parsed from HTTP index page
• state
  • ok: downloading is complete
  • progress: downloading is incomplete and in progress or will be resumed on next startup
  • error: downloading is stopped due to errors and will not be resumed
  • todo: downloading has not started yet
  • skipped: downloading is skipped due to -s / --skip rules, and will be re-evaluated on next startup
  • ignore: downloading is permanently skipped (useful to manualy ignore specific files)

Installation

pip install httpeat

Limitations

files count:

• above approximalety 1 000 000 files in the download queue, httpeat will start to eat your CPU.

live progress:

• showing live progress eats CPU, even if we throtle it to 0.5 frames per second. if it is too much for you, use -P / --no-progress.
• showing live progress while activating verbose messages with -v / --verbose may eat a lot of CPU, since the 'rich' library needs to process all the logs. try using -P / --no-progress when activating verbose logs.

Change log / todo list

v0.1 : introduce robust retry capabilities and stability improvements
- while downloading store <file>.download, then rename when done
- improve index parser capability to handle unknown pages
- test that the URL "unquote" to path works, in dowload mode
- accept text file URL list as argument, also useful for testing
- store local files with full URL path including host
- existing session do not need URL of file list. prepare for "download from multiple hosts"
- retry immediatly on download error
  see "Retrying HTTPX Requests" https://scrapfly.io/blog/web-scraping-with-python-httpx/
  for testing see https://github.com/Colin-b/pytest_httpx
- retry count per entry, then drop it and mark as error
- keep old states, in case last ones get corrupted
- maybe log file with higher log level and timestamp ? or at least time for start and end ? (last option implemented)
- prevent SIGINT during CSV state file saving

v0.2 : download from multiple mirrors and proxies, better progress bar, various fixes
- hide begining of URL on info print when single root prefix is identified
- unit tests for network errors
- fix progress update of indexer in download-only mode: store progress and it's task id in State_*
  and update in indexer/downloader
- argument to skip gt size
- fix modification date of downloaded files when doing final mv. don't fix directories for now
- add rich line for current file of each download task: name, size, retry count
- progress download bar should show size, and file count as additional numbers
- progress bar should be black and white
- progress bars should  display bytes per second for download
- display file path instead of URL after download completed
- display file size after path after download completed
- handle file names len > 255
- create all .download empty files during indexing, option to disable
- download from multiple mirrors
- fix bug with state_dl size progress, grows much too fast
- download from multiple proxies
- configurable user agent

v0.3 : first public version, various fixes
- fix 'rich' flickering on dl workers progress, by creating Group after all progress add_task() are performed.
- fix download size estimation for completed and total, by correctly handling in-progress files on startup.
- fix handling of SIGTERM, by dedirecing raising SIGINT
- fix show 'index' line all the time, even if nothing to do
- fix dl/idx progress bar position to match dl workers
- display errors count on dl progress bar
- print download stats at end of session
- cleanup code and review documentation
- package with pyproject.toml
- public version

TODO v0.4 - indexing supports resume, proxies and mirrors. heavy general internal refactor and better error handling
- fix error reporting in indexer table parsing
- fix error count statistic display at end of session
- refactor session into Httpeat object to share objects easily between downloader and indexer
- support resume in index_worker(), using common Httpeat.download_file() function with download_worker()
- store index pages while indexing in .<dirname>.index
- fix display of completeted items to show only successfully indexed/downloaded items
- report errors and warnings count at end of session
- return process error code as per error count
- support proxies and mirros in indexing
- fix handling of SIGTERM and SIGINT
- extend network tests to validate that repeated interruptions do not corrupt data
- fix download total size
- fix Exception accounting and reporting
- prevent multiple parallel executions of same session
- show name instead of path in progress bar

TODO v1.0
TODO fix rich library flickering of log scrolling over progress bar, see TODO in code at "RICH_USE_TABLE"
TODO cleanup and review

TODO v1.1
TODO ? when size is not found in index, perform HEAD requests in indexer ?

TODO LATER
TODO pluggable indexer
TODO set directories mtime from index
TODO profile code to see if we can improve performance with large download lists / CSV
TODO download single file over multiple mirrors and proxies ?
TODO httpeat-select to edit files status in download state file, using textual
     automatic reload in httpeat when state file change ? dangerous ?
     OR required httpeat to be stopped