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Advanced tools
Download large files via PyPI packages! Sideload automatically splits large files into PyPI-compliant chunks and allows you to download them through a beautiful CLI interface.
git clone <repository-url>
cd Sideload
uv install
Set up your credentials:
export JSONBIN_TOKEN="your_jsonbin_token"
export SIDELOAD_COLLECTION_ID="your_collection_id"
# Basic usage
uv run sideload download https://example.com/largefile.zip
# Specify output directory
uv run sideload download https://example.com/largefile.zip --output ./downloads/
# Override credentials
uv run sideload download https://example.com/largefile.zip --token YOUR_TOKEN --collection YOUR_COLLECTION
The CLI provides:
🚀 SIDELOAD
Download large files via PyPI packages
🌐 Requesting download for: https://example.com/largefile.zip
✅ Created sideload request: abc123def456
📡 Monitoring Progress
📥 Downloading... (45%) ████████████████▌
🔨 Building packages...
📤 Uploading part 1/3...
📊 Download Summary
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Property ┃ Value ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Original Filename │ largefile.zip │
│ File Size │ 250,123,456 bytes │
│ Total Packages │ 3 │
│ Status │ ✅ UPLOADED │
└───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
📦 Downloading Packages
📦 Downloading package 1/3... ████████████████████████████
🔧 Reassembling File
🔗 Assembling part 1/3... ████████████████████████████
✨ Complete
🎉 File successfully downloaded to: largefile.zip
📊 File size: 250,123,456 bytes
The server component handles file processing and PyPI uploads:
# Set environment variables
export JSONBIN_TOKEN="your_token"
export PYPI_TOKEN="your_pypi_token"
# Run the server
uv run python src/sideload/main.py
src/sideload/
├── __init__.py # Package initialization
├── main.py # Server component
└── cli.py # CLI client
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Download large files via PyPI packages
We found that sideload demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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