A simple rust-written downloading program featuring multithreaded concurrent downloads and progress bars
This is a from-scratch reimplementation of my python-downloader code, which itself is derived from the Rich project's example downloader code.
The binary for rustdl is called download.
- That the URL you have provided contains a filename after the final /, or that the webserver provides a Content-Disposition header of type 'attachment' with a filename provided.
- That you're okay overwriting that file in the current directory
- That no matter how many URLs you provide, you're fine with downloading them all at once concurrently
Currently, rustdl supports pulling cookies from several browsers, most notably Firefox and any Chromium variant it can find. Because I'm lazy I've hard-coded firefox as the default option because that's what I use. You can pass --browser to the tool to tell it which browser to try to fetch cookies from; Safari and Edge are sadly untested at this point in time.
The accepted values are chrome, chromium, firefox, safari, edge, brave, brave-standard and brave-origin.
Brave ships in two editions which keep their profiles in separate directories, so they're selected separately:
| Value | Browser |
|---|---|
brave-standard |
The standard Brave Browser release |
brave-origin |
The Brave Origin edition |
brave |
Whichever of the two is installed, preferring the standard release |
For both editions the stable channel is searched first, then the Beta,
Development and Nightly channels; within an install the Default profile is
used, falling back to the numbered profiles if there is no Default. The
standard release is also found when it was installed as a Flatpak or a snap.
Currently there's no way to do the following (yet):
- Specify a different browser as default
- Specify a different order to auto-detect browsers
- Tell it not to use a browser's cookies at all
It's entirely possible that this works on Windows?