lftp VS webui-aria2

I want to see tools most of us have never heard or even thought of. Extractors for obscure websites or websites we don't think of in terms of extractors like megatools or Mediafire Bulk Downloader. "Glue" tools like rclone's serve command (as well as the rest of rclone) and lftp that makes stuff work together easier. Phone apps like FE File Explorer Pro (sadly the free version seems to be gone) that makes... Source: 12 months ago

Sounds a bit similar to lftp[1]. While I don't think it supports updates of compressed files, it doesn't rely on a meta-file and also supports a range of other protocols. You can essentially just point it at a website, directory index, ftp server, torrent etc. And it will let you browse the files, create mirros or update local files. [1] https://lftp.yar.ru. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

I think you could accomplish this using lftp's mirror command with the --only-newer and --include-glob options. Source: almost 3 years ago

Yeah, you can drive the camera with a raspi and libgphoto2. You can sync the captured images via FTP using lftp. Source: about 3 years ago

I use lftp. The website design tells you exactly how the tool works. https://lftp.yar.ru/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

If you're just looking for a simple download manager though, I recommend aria2. it's command line based, but it has resumable downloads and download acceleration. You can get a webUI for it too. Source: 12 months ago

+1 for aria2! It does one job and does it very well. Want to add a UI? Take a look at WebUI-Aria2: https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 It is also very easy to integrate with othersoftware via the RPC interface https://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html?highlight=all%20proxy#rpc-interface. You can find wrappers in some languages e.g. The JS bindings: https://github.com/sonnyp/aria2.js. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

I haven't tried aria2 apps, but I do have aria2 webui and it works really nice. Source: about 2 years ago