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).
• 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

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.

Documentation

• Code Examples
  • Example 1: Downloading a file and running it
  • Example 2: Downloading a file to a temporarily location, not showing progress bar
  • Example 3: Mirrors are also supported
  • Example 4: Passing custom options to urllib.request.Request()
  • Example 5: Fetch data to memory instead of reading it from a file
  • Example 6: Use the nonblocking flag and get information during the download process
  • Example 7: Hash checking
  • Example 8: No ssl verification
• Documentation
  • Basic usage
  • pySmartDL.SmartDL (main class)
  • Exceptions
  • pySmartDL.utils (helper class)
• Notes
  • Bytes downloaded counter
• To-Do List

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• Search Page