MultiGetApp

A Sample Download Booster App that helps to download a file from a http url in 1 MiB chunks serially.

Features:

• Source URL/File can be downloaded serially in configurable chunks
• Source URL, Output filename, Chunk size, Number of chunks/requests can be configurable via command line arguments
• The file will be downloaded/chunks will be received in an order

Installation & How to Run

You would need to clone the repository to run the application

git clone https://github.com/harikiranyalavarthi9/DownloadBooster.git
cd DownloadBooster

You can run the application on Windows, MacOS, Linux either using node or using executable files.

######To run using node

Install node modules:

npm install

Run app using below command

node multiGet -output <file_name-string> -url <url_name-string> -chunkSize <chunk_size-number> -numOfChunks <number_of_chunks-number>

Chunk Size is measured in MiB. Eg: -chunkSize 2

Chunk Size and No.of Chunks/Requests are optional.

By default, Chunk Size is set to 1MiB and No.of Chunks to 4.

######To run using executable files:

For Windows:

./multiGet-win -o <file_name-string> -url <url_name-string> -chunkSize <chunk_size-number> -numOfChunks <number_of_chunks-number>

For MacOS:

./multiGet-macos -o <file_name-string> -url <url_name-string> -chunkSize <chunk_size-number> -numOfChunks <number_of_chunks-number>

./multiGet-linux -o <file_name-string> -url <url_name-string> -chunkSize <chunk_size-number> -numOfChunks <number_of_chunks-number>