Use in a Project

Get multiple download options (e.g. for archive.org links):

from requests_downloader import downloader
download_urls, default_idx = downloader.handle_url('<url>')

Download a file:

from requests_downloader import downloader
downloader.download('<download_url>')

Use Console Interface

usage: smart-dl [-h] [--download_dir DOWNLOAD_DIR] [--download_file DOWNLOAD_FILE]
                [--download_path DOWNLOAD_PATH] [--block BLOCK] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
                [--resume] [--progress] [--checksum CHECKSUM] [--verbose] [--debug]
                [--version] url

positional arguments:
url                   Download URL

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
--download_dir DOWNLOAD_DIR
                        Specify downloads directory
--download_file DOWNLOAD_FILE
                        Specify filename
--download_path DOWNLOAD_PATH
                        Specify path (ignores _dir or _file arguments)
--block BLOCK         Block size while writing the file, in bytes
--timeout TIMEOUT     Timeout in seconds
--resume              Try to resume the download, if supported
--progress            Show download progressbar
--checksum CHECKSUM   Checksum to verify integrity of the download
--verbose             Enable verbose output
--debug               Enable debug information
--version             show program's version number and exit

0.4.0 (2022-04-28)

• Option to show filename to the left of progressbar

• Modularize code

• Style: Black

• Fix bugs

0.3.0 (2022-02-11)

• Several documentation updates

• Code refactoring

• Change console command from clunky requests_downloader to smart-dl

0.2.0 (2021-06-08)

• Improvements in content disposition and content length handling

• Logging improvements

0.1.7 (2021-06-07)

• Minor bugfixes and spelling corrections.

0.1.5 (2020-11-03)

• Support for Google Docs (Document, Spreadsheets, Presentations).

0.1.4 (2020-09-07)

• Bugfixes.

• First Alpha release.

0.1.0 (2020-09-05)

• First release on PyPI.