EnderUNIX Aget

Multithreaded HTTP Download Accelerator

Latest Stable Version: 0.4.1

What is Aget?

Aget is a multithreaded HTTP -for now- download accelerator.
Everybody knows about the famous Flashget for Win32. This program is a starting point of a very useful project like Flashget. The aim is to provide as much functionality as we can.

Tests show that Aget is successfull in realizing its objectives. A file of size 36.347.010 bytes was downloaded in 14 minutes 28 secs via wget; whereas it was downloaded in 3 minutes and 15 seconds via aget.
Aget is an acronym for two Turkish words "Acele Getir". (Eng.: Get it fast!)

Mirrors

Trunix.org

How to use?

If you're downloading a file of size less than 512K, I suggest using small segments, i.e 4-5 however, if you are downloading large files, you can increase the segmentation Aget first sends a HEAD request to retrieve the length of the file, and divides it into equal segments according to the number user has requested. Then for each segment, it connects to the server and gets only the part, which it is to download. Therefore, if you're downloading a small file, it is suggested that you decrease the number of segmentation, likewise, if it's a large file, you're urged to increase the number of threads.

Project News

May 12, 2009
Aget version 0.4.1 released. This minor release adds large file support patch
by Si-wei Louis Liu of Sun Microsystems, and newer glibc errno errors.
Please see the Changelog for details.
January 13, 2004
Dries Verachtert has created an rpm for Fedora Core.
You can download it from the Download section.
January 13, 2004
Bruno Barrera C has sent another Debian package, which fixes the "errno" problem.
October 2, 2003
Bruno Barrera C has sent another Debian package.
You can get the debian package from the download section in this page.
July 20, 2003
Bruno Barrera C has packaged Aget for Debian.
Currently it's available doing "apt-get install aget".
He also sent a manpage for aget, which is in aget-devel now..
You can also get the debian package from the download section in this page.
Thank you very much Bruno!.
June 3, 2003
Patches by Gurer Ozen and Patrick MARIE. The first one has been integrated into
aget-devel, the latter has been integraed into both devel and stable versions.
See Changelog for details.
May 20, 2003
Aget has joined FreeBSD ports tree. See here for details.
January 3, 2003
Stefano Balocco contributed an RPM for aget
November 22, 2002
Version 0.4 released.
September 20, 2002
Development version 0.39 is released.
May 3, 2002
People reported problems about other OSes. Here is a diff against version 0.2.
I've tested it on FreeBSD 4.5, RedHat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8. Also in this patchlevel, if you don't supply a thread count, it is defaulted to one.

TODO

About further development, see TODO file.

ChangeLog

You can see the ChangeLog file to see what has changed between the releases.

Download

EnderUNIX Aget 0.4.1 [STABLE] SHA256 (aget-0.4.1.tar.gz) = d17393c7f44aab38028ae71f14b572ba1839b6e085fb2092b6ebe68bc931df4d

Download prior 0.4 version packages

EnderUNIX Aget 0.4 [STABLE RPM] [stefano's site]
EnderUNIX Aget 0.4 [STABLE RPM] [local]
EnderUNIX Aget 0.4 [STABLE FEDORA RPM] [local]
EnderUNIX Aget 0.4 [STABLE DEBIAN .DEB] [local]
EnderUNIX Aget [DEVELOPMENT]

Install

Read the INSTALL document as well as the README document to install and deploy EnderUNIX Aget, You can find README-Developer document helpful if you want to help develop aget.

Old Releases

Version 0.4

Version 0.2p1

Version 0.2

Authors

Murat Balaban [murat at enderunix dot org]

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Thanks

See THANKS file.