FastGet

A CLI tool as well as go library to ultrafast download files over HTTP(s).

DISCLAIMER: FastGet performance heavily reliant on the network and CPU performance of the client machine. More importantly HTTP(s) endpoint must allow partial requests presenting Accept-Ranges and accepting Range headers.

Demo

Usage

fastget available as Commnad-Line tool and Go library.

Commnad-Line

fastget [options] <URL_TO_DOWNLOAD>

Examples

$ fastget http://speedtest.tele2.net/10MB.zip
Download started..
3.50 MB / 3.50 MB 100 % [===========================================================================| 0s ] 267.59 KB/s
3.50 MB / 3.50 MB 100 % [===========================================================================| 0s ] 165.65 KB/s
3.50 MB / 3.50 MB 100 % [===========================================================================| 0s ] 116.10 KB/s
Download finished in 3s. File: E:\10MB.zip

Read the documentation for more information on the CLI usage.

Go Library

Here is a simple example that finds fastest hosts:

fg, err := fastget.NewFastGetter("http://speedtest.tele2.net/10MB.zip")
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

result, err := fg.Get()
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
file := result.OutputFile
elapsedTime := result.ElapsedTime

Read the API documentation for more information on the library usage.

Installation

Download suitable binary for your OS at the releases page.

Bash Install

You can install or update fastget with:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pgollangi/fastget/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash

Installs into /usr/local/bin

Scoop

scoop bucket add pgollangi-bucket https://github.com/pgollangi/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install fastget

Updating:

scoop update fastget

Homebrew

brew install pgollangi/tap/fastget

Updating:

brew upgrade fastget

Go

$ go get github.com/pgollangi/fastget/cmd/fastget
$ fastget

Manual

1. Download and install binary from the latest release.
2. Recommended: add fastget executable to your $PATH.

Building from source

fastget CLI is written in the Go programming language, so to build the CLI yourself, you first need to have Go installed and configured on your machine.

Install Go

To download and install Go, please refer to the Go documentation. Please download Go 1.14.x or above.

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/pgollangi/fastget.git
$ cd fastget

Build

$ go build cmd/fastget/main.go
$ fastget

Contributing

Thanks for considering contributing to this project!

Please read the Contributions and Code of conduct.

Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request!

License

Copyright © Prasanna Kumar

fastget is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Author

Built with ❤ by Prasanna Kumar