Patroneo/template/pySmartDL

Python Smart Download Manager -- pySmartDL

pySmartDL strives to be a full-fledged 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.
• Speed limiting feature.
• Hash checking.
• Non-blocking, shows progress bar, download speed and eta.
• Full support for custom headers and methods.
• Python 3 Support

Project Links

• 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

Installation

Using pip (recommended way)

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``

Usage

Download is as simple as creating an instance and starting it:

from pySmartDL import SmartDL

url = "https://github.com/iTaybb/pySmartDL/raw/master/test/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()

Requirements

• Python 3.4 or greater.

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