Download links from a queue file.
npx queueget --help
Say you want to download a movie via some link and while it is loading you find another link you like. The point of QueueGet is that you can just add new links to the queue file that it uses and it will keep on downloading. QueueGet has some convenience features, such as
- Continuing broken downloads where they stopped if possible
- Loaders for preprocessing links from file hosters
- IP refreshing for supported routers (currently only Fritzbox)
# queue file with link at the top
echo 'http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.3/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso' > queue.txt
# run queueget
npx queueget
# link is being processed, so still at the top, additional links go below
echo 'http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/19.10/ubuntu-19.10-desktop-amd64.iso' >> queue.txt
# when processing finishes successfully, the topmost link is removed and further links are processed
usage: queueget [<options>]
options:
--queue FILE links to download (defaults to queue.txt)
--history FILE links of the past (defaults to queue_history.txt)
--restore FILE restore queue before starting for debugging
--retries NUMBER number of retries for failing downloads (defaults to 3)
--limit NUMBER bytes per second limit for download (defaults to 0, no limit)
--router TYPE router for ip refreshing, e.g. fritzbox
--flatten ignore directories
QueueGet has a daemon mode, where it just downloads the queue without blocking the shell you are using to start it. Use
queuegetd to run this mode instead of queueget. The output is written to queueget.txt and the process id is
written to queueget.pid, this id is used to ensure only one instance of the daemon is running.