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suggetions for a download manager
« on: April 24, 2010, 05:45:05 AM »
i need a download manager for direct downloads...
one which can give the following features:
1-support resuming downloads when they r interrupted
2-support multi mirror download  for download acceleration( i think its called multi thread!!)
3-can save downloading URLs and start them automatically.(better if it can capture them directly)
4-can work directly with rapidshare, zshare, 4shared and such sites.

what would be your recommendations guys?
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2010, 06:39:58 AM »
FatRat - download manager
FatRat is an open source download manager for Linux written in C++ and built on top of the Trolltech Qt 4 library. It is rich in features and is continuously extended.
* HTTP(S)/FTP/SFTP downloads
* FTP/SFTP uploads
* RSS feed support + special functions for TV shows and podcasts
* BitTorrent support (including torrent creating, DHT, UPnP, encryption etc.)
* Torrent search
* Support for SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies
* RapidShare.com FREE downloads
* RapidShare.com uploads
* RapidShare.com link verification and folder extraction
* RapidSafe link decoding
* MD4/MD5/SHA1 hash computing
* Remote control via Jabber (!)
* Remote control via a web interface
* YouTube video downloading
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2010, 06:42:53 AM »
I too was going to say Filezilla (which is my downloader of choice and I use all the time) but you mention rapidshare, zshare, 4shared (sites I don't use) so I'm unsure whether FZilla works with those.

ongoto - any idea whether Filezilla works with rapidshare etc ?
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2010, 07:38:54 AM »
Hi ongoto

Thanks for that -I don't use them either

I reckon the large majority of my online file transfers are done using Filezilla, and since it introduced TABS its even better.

And being able to export the settings and import them in other Filezilla installs makes things a doddle.
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2010, 08:49:36 AM »
i downloaded filezilla....
but its only FTP client!!!
i dont have a clue how to use that for normal HTTP downloads!!
spent a long time searching in its config&settings and stuff but its only for FTP!!!
am i missing something here??
and ongoto... i thought that linux is secure against spyware and maleware and such thing!!! am i mistaken?
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2010, 08:59:57 AM »
A quick trip to Synaptic, searching for the terms "download manager" give multiple results, with at least 3 of them looking like something you're talking about. Uget, wxDFast, and FatRat. Why don't you install them and try them all out and judge for yourself?

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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2010, 09:02:55 AM »
I hang on to simple things that works ... like Kget  ;)

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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2010, 09:12:07 AM »
Kget can't split the file apart and do multiple downloads on the same file. That was one of the prerequisites he had. I just use KGet, myself, but I'm not really interested in downloading large files, other than occasional distro ISO's.

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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2010, 10:11:14 AM »
+1 for FatRat 
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2010, 11:06:08 AM »
ruel,
i had that visit to synaptic b4 i made the post...
the idea was just to get the opinions of people who tried those applications...
maybe someone would tell an insight about an app or 2 which can make me or anyone else reading this topic either head to on or run away from another:-)
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2010, 11:14:52 AM »
"1-support resuming downloads when they r interrupted"

kget and jdownloader

"2-support multi mirror download  for download acceleration( i think its called multi thread!!)"

this was a must have feature some years ago but this days the servers that limit the speed of a file download usually verifies the ip of the machine downloading that file and won't allow multiple connections unless you have a premium account, rapidshare or megaupload are two good examples

other servers that gives slow downloads usually are just slow, multiple connections will give you multiple but slower parts of the same file

"3-can save downloading URLs and start them automatically.(better if it can capture them directly)"

jdownloader does this very well it spies what you have in klipper, kget can do this if i remember correctly

"4-can work directly with rapidshare, zshare, 4shared and such sites."

jdownloader is designed basically only for this, it can decompress the files once downloaded and put passwords if it can crack them, automatically write the captcha and other nice tricks

there is a windows app called free download manager, it is similar to kget but with other extra tricks, the older version i tested worked very well on wine but right now i use jdownloader in windows and linux, it requires java making it cross platform

there is many alternatives to jdownloader, apps designed to download files form file servers but this one is cross platform and never gave me a broken file, something that happens commonly with a app that split a file into smaller sections to download them faster
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Re: suggetions for a download manager
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2010, 09:30:33 PM »
Never used this one but found it in the repo's:

MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Windows/Linux/BSDs/MacOs
MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Windows/Linux/
BSDs/MacOs.  It's programmed in C++ and has a GUI based on wxWidgets.
It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most
users. It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. It
supports resuming downloads if the Web server supports it, and if
you like, you can reconfig the thread number without stopping the
current task. It's also support SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftp proxy, http
proxy.

Maybe that is what you are looking for?