s4cmd vs you-get

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s4cmd		you-get
	Project
4	Mentions	7
1,349	Stars	49,265
0.6%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.3
9 months ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Python	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

s4cmd

Posts with mentions or reviews of s4cmd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.

Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023

https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
Why am I having such trouble with S3 all of a sudden?
1 project | /r/aws | 19 Apr 2021
Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2021

No mention of how it compares to s4cmd (which like s3cmd is python).
https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
AWS EC2 spot instance - write directly to S3
1 project | /r/aws | 26 Jan 2021

I've used s4cmd in the past. It worked well, and you can specify the level of concurrency.

you-get

Posts with mentions or reviews of you-get. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-01.

How do I run a python3 module I installed via pip3?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 8 Nov 2022

I installed you-get on my Linux Mint system via:
Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2022
Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2022
you-get is now throwing 412 errors on some Bilibili videos. I don't know what to do
1 project | /r/commandline | 9 May 2022

Yes. That lovely program started to fail on me from today. I've used it plenty of times to download from Bilibili without any issue for months, as it seems to support more features than other downloaders (notably youtube-dl forks and annie).
技术向：有网页视频下载器推荐吗？
1 project | /r/China_irl | 8 Dec 2021

you-get挺好用，不过是命令行工具
Unable to download from bilibili
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 12 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing s4cmd and you-get you can also consider the following projects:

s3cmd - Official s3cmd repo -- Command line tool for managing S3 compatible storage services (including Amazon S3 and CloudFront).

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

s5cmd - Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool.

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

FlexGet - The official FlexGet repository

PyIDM - python open source (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, based on python, LibCurl, and youtube_dl https://github.com/firedm/FireDM [Moved to: https://github.com/firedm/FireDM]

commute-tube - Copy online media to your USB pen by night and watch it on your daily commute

Monkey-DL (Anime Downloader) - Bulk download your favourite anime episodes from your favourite anime websites

aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services