Parallel Downloader

A simple parallel downloader package written in go

Benchmark shows that it is faster than aria2c with equal number of splits

Usage example

$ cd cmd
$ go get github.com/t3rm1n4l/godownload
$ make
$ ./downloader -c=5 -o=outputfile -u=http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso
File size is 734MB
Downloaded 0.23% of 734MB, at 121KB/s

Library usage

Import "github/com/t3rm1n4l/godownload" in your code. See cmd/main.go for implementation of downloader

d := download.New()
size, err := d.Init(url, connections, filename)
// Used for blocked wait for full file download
err = d.Download()
    or
// Just returns by starting download. We must call d.Wait() to block wait
// till download is complete.
d.StartDownload()

// Used to gather information about status of on-going download
d.GetProgress()