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• What actually gets you in trouble with torrenting? Downloading or seeding?

  You could try a tool like https://aria2.github.io. Source: about 2 months ago

• What is the best and fast way to move 30 TB of data from one site to another side a few block down the street?

  A simple example of parallel transfers of a single file are Byte-range: HTTP requests. An example of one off-the-shelf tool that does this is aria2, but there are many libraries, and it's not difficult to write code from scratch. Source: 2 months ago

• How to download and store 900 3 hour videos in a month?

  Like others here, I also recommend using https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to download the videos. Pair it with https://aria2.github.io/ as an external downloader to get the max speed download. Source: 3 months ago

• Video downloader

  I've used "aria2" download application CLI which was good / useful e.g. https://aria2.github.io/ (not sure that's even the right official site), And it LOOKS like there may be some web add on extension someone wrote to use it from firefox, but I've zero experience with browser integration of it. Https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aria2-integration/. Source: 3 months ago

• Torrent Download CLI

  I don't know about a cli tool you could use to search and download torrent files but aria2 is a CLI tool that's capable of downloading torrents. Source: 4 months ago

• sha256sum not matching

  Heh I wrote my own parallel/chunked downloader for large files although I hear aria2c can do something similar. Source: 5 months ago

• Need Help Installing Aria2

  Download the latest version of Aria2 from the official website (https://aria2.github.io/). Alternatively, you can use a package manager to install Aria2. For example, on Debian-based systems (such as Ubuntu), you can use the following command to install Aria2:. Source: 6 months ago

• People really need to stop using this piece of junk.

  Aria2 [https://aria2.github.io/] over termux [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/] . It does one thing, and does it perfectly. Source: 8 months ago

• small sized torrent program?

  What kind of mid-90s setup have you got going where 38mb is intolerable? Just use Aria2 then: https://aria2.github.io. Source: 8 months ago

• Downloading Playlist Bilibili

  I improved the speeds with aria2 as external downloader: --downloader aria2c. Source: 9 months ago

• What are some essential packages to install, after flashing OpenWRT on your router.

  Aria2 is a fast lightweight downloader. https://aria2.github.io/ tested on a few devices and it has been possibly the best downloader/torrent for flashed routers. Super easy to use and configure. Source: 10 months ago

• Does anyone have a magnet link for downloading 11?

  Add aria2 to the list. Terrific for resuming, and also natively handles torrents. Available in the repos. Source: 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Use phone to check status of currently running process on laptop

  I think I would recommend http://ariang.mayswind.net/ https://github.com/mayswind/AriaNg which is a web interface to https://aria2.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Canonical should ditch Snap, embrace Flatpak and improve APT

  Aria2 supports parallel and fallback mirrors. Source: 10 months ago

• Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders

  This tool works in Windows and Linux and is a GUI front ends to the following CLI tools that deal with online media downloading. The extension based architecture makes it possible to easily add support for any other CLI tool but it limits itself to tools deals with downloading of online media. yt-dlp : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp youtube-dl : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl gallery-dl :... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Is there any Apple Silcon-native BitTorrent clients?

  Https://aria2.github.io/ is native and handles torrents too. Source: about 1 year ago

• Torrenting on iOS [No jailbreak]

  Untested, but maybe you could run aria2c (https://aria2.github.io/) under https://ish.app/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Torrentium - Torrent Scraper with built-in Cloud Downloader

  A: Ok so this of it like nyaa-client merged with mirror bots. The Android app uses TorrentiumAPI, which provides APIs for sites like nyaa.si and sukebei.nyaa.si and a interface to aria2c for downloading torrents and rclone for automatic uploads to cloud storage. Source: about 1 year ago

• yt-dlp doesn't use aria2c after system upgrade (WARNING: The stream has AES-128 encryption and pycryptodomex is not available; extraction will be delegated to ffmpeg)

  Report bugs to https://github.com/aria2/aria2/issues Visit https://aria2.github.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Any legit alternative to Jdownloader 2?

  Depends on what you wish to do. For one-click hosters, JDownloader is still a fine piece of software. For simply downloading stuff from URLs, I mostly use aria2 these days:. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to share volumes between pods in kubernetes

  If you just need to copy a few files from A to B, dragging in the entire filesystem API is overkill. You don't need locking, directory caching, atomic rename, block mapping, fsync, user ID translation, mmaping, etc. You can't make trade-offs like "if there is a network problem, do this instead", because the filesystem MUST hide all that from you. You can't decide "this file should be downloaded with 10 concurrent... Source: over 1 year ago