README.md

📦🌏 cyberdrop-dl - cyberdrop.me Downloader written in Rust 🦀

The fastest https://cyberdrop.me album downloader there is, written in Rust as an exercise.

Usage

• Download single album

$ cyberdrop-dl https://cyberdrop.me/a/album1

• Download multiple albums

$ cyberdrop-downloader albums.txt

• or

$ cyberdrop-dl https://cyberdrop.me/a/album1 https://cyberdrop.me/a/album2

Files are saved in current working directory named './cyberdrop-dl'.

How to install

Recomended. Install using cargo. You need Rust toolchain installed, get it here @ https://rustup.rs/

It's that simple

$ cargo install cyberdrop-dl

Docker

No need to build and install via Docker

$ docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)"/cyberdrop-dl:/cyberdrop-dl:rw wmw9/cyberdrop-dl cyberdrop-dl https://cyberdrop.me/a/album

TODO

• Download multiple albums simultaneously
• Download multiple album files in parallel
• Accept list of albums.txt via remote URL
• Custom destination directory via -o flag
• Integrate with Telegram Bot for easier usage
• Detect dublicate albums

What I Learned 🧠

• Tokio runtime (using channels, green threads, Arc<>, Semaphore)
• HTML scraping
• Terminal UI (multiple progress bars, spinners)
• Async/Await
• Async I/O
• Working with filesystem
• Rust basics (HTTP requests, args parsing, error handling)