rfcdl 1.0.0

A tool for downloading RFCs in high-speed.

Usage

This tool can be used to download a large number of RFC documents in a short period of time. Since I like to keep all RFCs locally on my machine, this is the perfect way to retrieve all the documents.

For a quick introduction, let me show how you would use the tool to get started.

$ rfcdl -d ~/download/rfc/

As can be seen above, you have to specify a directory where all RFC documents will be saved in. Upon the next invocation of rfcdl, only new RFCs will be downloaded.

If you only want to download a random subset of all RFCs, use the –samples flag. For instance, the following will download 20 random RFC documents.

$ rfcdl -d ~/download/rfc/ --samples 20

Since rfcdl downloads multiple files in parallel by default, one can specify how many simultaneous downloads are allowed using the –limit flag. The following invocation will only download at most ten files in parallel.

$ rfcdl -d ~/download/rfc/ --limit 10

To explicitly state how many times rfcdl should download a file upon error, the –retries flag can be used. This is how you could tell the tool to try to download each file at maximum five times.

$ rfcdl -d ~/download/rfc/ --retries 5

Configuration

A configuration file can be saved to ~/.config/rfcdl/config.ini to avoid specifying the path for each invocation. Of course, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME can be set to change your configuration path.

[GENERAL]
RootDir = ~/download/rfc/