Top 5 C Downloader Projects

axel

8 2,814 6.4 C

Lightweight CLI download accelerator

Project mention: The curl-wget Venn diagram | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-04

I recently found [axel], which is very impressive wget-like tool for larger files.
[axel]: https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel

castget

3 95 0.0 C

A simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

Project mention: Ask HN: Why is it so hard to download podcasts? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

Many people have given their "why," but I'll give another "how".
castget¹ is a simple tool that does exactly what you want, just add a feed URL and it pulls all the episodes. It has a nice catchup mode so you can add feeds that you've listened to elsewhere without pulling all the old episodes too. hpodder² is another tool I've used in the past, but I can't remember why I switched.
Depending on how much you like cobbling together your own solution html-xml-utils³ makes it incredibly easy to script a solution. For example, "curl feed | hxselect -c -s '\n' 'enclosure::attr(url)'" would list just the URLs. feedparser⁴ is a battle tested solution for processing feeds if you'd prefer a proper solution over a hacky shell script.
¹ https://castget.johndal.com/
² https://github.com/jgoerzen/hpodder/
³ https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/
⁴ https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser

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wget-lua

2 81 6.1 C

Wget-AT is a modern Wget with Lua hooks, Zstandard (+dictionary) WARC compression and URL-agnostic deduplication.
dsidl

1 15 2.9 C

A simple QR based file downloader for the DSi
ParanoidFFD

1 9 1.8 C

Undetectable fanfiction.net Downloader with Parallel Downloading
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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