snatch

A simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust

(A special thanks to @fh-d for this awesome logo !)

Current features

• Simple: a command line tool to manage easily your downloads ;
• Fast: multithreading support.

NOTE: Snatch is on alpha version. This version runs well on remote contents with a length known before the download (with the content-length header from the server response) - also, the Interruptable feature is not implemented yet.

Installation

1. Install Rust and Cargo using rustup ;
2. You can download two versions of Snatch :

• the latest build from crates.io: cargo install snatch ;
• the last commit version from Github: cargo install --git https://github.com/derniercri/snatch.git --branch devel ;

3. Enjoy !

Usage

Snatch 0.1.2
Snatch, a simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust.

USAGE:
    snatch [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <url>

FLAGS:
    -d, --debug      Activate the debug mode
        --force      Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -f, --file <file>          The local file to save the remote content file
    -t, --threads <threads>    Threads which can be used to download

ARGS:
    <url>

Screenshot

File examples

• A simple PDF file
• Big Buck Bunny, a big free mp4 file
• The cat DNA, a big .gz file
• A big PDF file from Princeton

Contributing

You want to contribute to Snatch ? Here are a few ways you can help us out :

• improve the documentation,
• improve the CLI,
• add new features (please to see our issues),
• report bugs.

If you want to create a pull request, this is the procedure to make it great:

• create an issue to explain the problem you encountered (except for typo),
• fork the project,
• create a local branch to make changes (from our devel branch),
• test your changes,
• create a pull request (please compare it with our devel branch),
• explain your changes,
• submit !

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Snatch ! :-D

Changelogs

• 0.1.3 (current)

  • Fix the behaviour to know if the download is OK or not
  • Delete automatically the file if the download is not OK
  • Fix the behaviour when downloading a file using zero thread (yes, that was possible...)
  • Fix the behaviour when downloading a file using one thread
  • Monothreading download if the remote server does not support PartialContent headers

• 0.1.2 (2ee85c151167770ce0a71245e72c02497625087f)
  No changelogs reported

• 0.1.1 (624a59d23e28d369bae2f9d30ea22db197f7e729)
  No changelogs reported

• 0.1.0
  No changelogs reported

Build issues

• Libraries cannot be build Please go check if you are using the latest version of rustc (stable), running rustup update.

• fatal error: 'openssl/hmac.h' file not found If you are on a GNU/Linux distribution (like Ubuntu), please install libssl-dev. If you are on macOS, please install openssl and check your OpenSSL configuration:

brew install openssl
export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/include
export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/lib
export DEP_OPENSSL_INCLUDE=`brew --prefix openssl`/include