MirrorURL
Security-hardened remote directory mirroring tool. MirrorURL recursively discovers files behind an HTTP(S) directory listing and mirrors them locally with adaptive concurrency, resumable/partial downloads, integrity verification, and an SSRF-hardened transport layer.
Status: Refactor complete. The full implementation lives in the
src/mirror_url/package, migrated verbatim from the original single-file script perREFACTORING_PLAN.md. The legacy single-file script was retained as a frozen reference until the test suite passed against the package with real runtime dependencies installed, then removed (v3.1.20).
Features
- Recursive discovery of remote directory trees (BFS, depth/exclude limits, cycle-safe).
- True parallel downloads — multiple files and multiple chunks per file concurrently.
- Adaptive async concurrency that tunes itself to server RTT, throughput, and error rate.
- Resumable & partial downloads with HTTP range requests and chunk assembly.
- Integrity checks — size/timestamp comparison, ETag handling, content hashing.
- Resilience — per-domain circuit breakers, exponential backoff, rate limiting.
- Security — path-traversal and symlink-bomb defenses, private-IP/SSRF guards, URL-scope enforcement.
- Operability — metrics collection, multi-level progress, optional HTTP health-check server.
- Caching — filesystem and disk-backed indexes to skip unchanged content.
Installation
# From source (editable, recommended during the refactor)
pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
Python 3.9+ is required. Core dependencies: httpx, pydantic (v2), PyYAML.
Optional extras: fast (stringzilla, lxml), progress (tqdm), monitor (psutil).
Usage
Run via the console entry point or the module:
mirror-url https://example.com/files/ --output ./mirror
# or
python -m mirror_url https://example.com/files/ --output ./mirror
Run mirror-url --help for the full option list.
Configuration can also be supplied via a YAML file (see MirrorConfig /
load_config_from_args).
📖 Full documentation: see the User Guide (HTML version) for detailed installation, CLI reference, config-file format, download modes, security notes, the Python API, and troubleshooting.
🛠 Contributing to the code? The Developer Guide
(HTML version) is an architecture deep-dive:
dependency layers, the MirrorURL mixin design, runtime data flow, and
step-by-step extension recipes.
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pre-commit install
ruff check . # lint
black --check . # format check
mypy # type-check the new package
pytest -m "not integration" # fast test lane
pytest # full suite (includes integration)
Continuous integration runs lint + tests across Python 3.9–3.12 (see
.github/workflows/ci.yml).
Project layout
src/mirror_url/ # the package (dependency-layered)
tests/ # pytest suite
REFACTORING_PLAN.md # module breakdown + migration roadmap
CHANGELOG.md # notable changes (Keep a Changelog format)
CONTRIBUTING.md # dev setup, checks, conventions
pyproject.toml # packaging, deps, tool config
Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the dev setup, the checks CI runs, and the project conventions (dependency layering, lint policy, behavior-preserving refactors). Notable changes are tracked in CHANGELOG.md.
Authors
Borut Podlipnik, Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, podlipnik@mps.mpg.de
License
MIT © BP
1 maintainer
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