aria2 VS libcurl

Compare aria2 vs libcurl and see what are their differences.

aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. (by aria2)

libcurl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features (by curl)
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aria2 libcurl
114 296
33,246 33,908
1.7% 2.6%
7.7 9.9
4 days ago about 5 hours ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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aria2

Posts with mentions or reviews of aria2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.

libcurl

Posts with mentions or reviews of libcurl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aria2 and libcurl you can also consider the following projects:

Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.

Simple-WebSocket-Server

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

cpp-httplib - A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library

axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator

cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.

libwebsockets - canonical libwebsockets.org networking library

Mongoose - Embedded Web Server

cpp-netlib - The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.

WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library