idm

Downloader with Internet Download Manager (Windows)

Installing

Install and update using pip:

$ pip install idm

idm supports Python 2 and newer, Python 3 and newer, and PyPy.

Example

What does it look like? Here is an example of a simple pyidm program:

from idm import IDMan

downloader = IDMan()
url = "http://test.com/test.exe"

downloader.download(url, r"c:\DOWNLOADS", "test_output.exe")

and "Internet Download Manager (IDM)" will open then immediately download the URL

add link without start downloading

from idm import IDMan

downloader = IDMan()
url = "http://test.com/test.exe"

downloader.download(url, r"c:\DOWNLOADS", "test_output.exe", add_only=True)

or run on terminal/cmd

> idm "http://test.com/test.exe" -p C:\DOWNLOADS -o test_output.exe -c -ua "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36" -r "http://test.com/test.exe" -U admin -P admin123 -D "Authorization=Bearer KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9\nCookie=accountToken=KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9" -C "accountToken=KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9;"
# or pyidm

Example use with headers as postData, cookies and other parameters:

from idm import IDMan

downloader = IDMan()
url = "http://test.com/test.exe"

headers = { 
    'Authorization': "Bearer KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9",
    'Cookie': 'accountToken=KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9',
}
cookies = {
    'accountToken': 'KN9WW7k5gKgCnQLpnmWWM7LytAuSUwb9'
}

username = "admin"
password = "admin123"
confirm = True
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36"

downloader.download(url, r"c:\DOWNLOADS", "test_output.exe", "http://test.com/test.exe", cookie, headers, username, password, confirm, user_agent)

Command line usage

you can use idm or pyidm

usage: idm/pyidm [-h] [-p PATH] [-o OUTPUT] [-c] [-r REFERRER] [-C COOKIE] [-D POST_DATA] [-U USERNAME] [-P PASSWORD]
              [-ua USER_AGENT] [--config CONFIG]
              [URLS ...]

Command line downloader with/Via Internet Download Manager(IDM)

positional arguments:
  URLS                  url to download, or "c" to get url from clipboard or a text file containing one link per line

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PATH, --path PATH  Path to save
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Save with different name
  -c, --confirm         Confirm before download
  -a, --add             Add link to IDM without start downloading
  -r REFERRER, --referrer REFERRER
                        Url referrer
  -C COOKIE, --cookie COOKIE
                        Cookie string or dict
  -D POST_DATA, --post-data POST_DATA
                        Post Data string or dict
  -U USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Username if require
  -P PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Password if require
  -ua USER_AGENT, --user-agent USER_AGENT
                        Send with custom User-Agent string
  --config CONFIG       set config, format section:option:value, for list valid section/option type "doc"

Support

• Python 2.7+, Python 3.x
• Windows (only), for Linux you can use pywget (pip install pywget)

Tips

always provide ‘referrer’, some sites must have referrer in header

Links

• License: GPL
• Code: https://github.com/cumulus13/pyidm
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/cumulus13/pyidm/issues

Author

Hadi Cahyadi

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