iadownloader
Auto-download files and collections from Internet Archive (by rsvensson)
GGet
Multithreaded download accelerator written in Go (by ashwinGokhale)
| iadownloader | GGet | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 4 | 15 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | over 6 years ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
iadownloader
Posts with mentions or reviews of iadownloader.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.
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Looking for some help in downloading a few thousand files from archive.org on ubuntu. wget is estimated to take 2 months... I figured I should ask the fellow data-hoarders!
I've used this [https://github.com/rsvensson/iadownloader] for a similar use case, but you might also consider one of these...
GGet
Posts with mentions or reviews of GGet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.
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Looking for some help in downloading a few thousand files from archive.org on ubuntu. wget is estimated to take 2 months... I figured I should ask the fellow data-hoarders!
This sounds pretty easy to do with Go, spawn hundreds of threads (which have a ridiculously small ram footprint) and off you go. A google search yielded this: https://github.com/ashwinGokhale/GGet
What are some alternatives?
When comparing iadownloader and GGet you can also consider the following projects:
archive-downloader - A downloader for archive.org
internetarchive-downloader - Simultaneous, resumable and hash-verified downloads from Internet Archive (archive.org)
BaseCase-3 - This is a Python Application that can be used to gather all files of a certain type from any archive.com repository
internetarchive - A Python and Command-Line Interface to Archive.org