throttlebuster 0.1.6

Accelerate file downloads by overcoming common throttling restrictions.

ThrottleBuster

ThrottleBuster is a Python library that accelerates file downloads by bypassing common throttling restrictions. It uses asynchronous methods to improve download speeds and is especially useful for handling large files.

Features

• Concurrent downloading across multiple tasks
• Fully asynchronous with synchronous support
• Ready to use commandline tool

Installation

$ pip install "throttlebuster[cli]"

Usage

For testing, you can set up an Nginx server with the example configuration below:.

# Test server

## Create this file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled or add it to the default nginx.conf

server {
    listen 8888;
    server_name throttlebuster.test;

    location / {
        limit_rate 500k;  # Limit rate to 500 KB/s
        root /home/smartwa/y2mate;  # Set your own directory
        index index.html;
    }
}

Developer

from throttlebuster import ThrottleBuster

async def main():
    throttlebuster = ThrottleBuster(tasks=4)
    downloaded_file = await throttlebuster.run(
        "http://localhost:8888/test.1.opus",
    )
    print(
        downloaded_file
    )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import asyncio

    asyncio.run(main())

Custom progress hook

from throttlebuster import DownloadTracker, ThrottleBuster


async def callback_function(data: DownloadTracker):
    percent = (data.downloaded_size / data.expected_size) * 100
    print(f"> Downloading {data.saved_to.name} {percent:.2f}%", end="\r")


async def main():
    throttlebuster = ThrottleBuster(tasks=1)
    downloaded_file await throttlebuster.run(
        "http://localhost:8888/test.1.opus", progress_hook=callback_function
    )
    print(
        downloaded_file
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import asyncio

    asyncio.run(main())

Synchronous

from throttlebuster import ThrottleBuster

throttlebuster = ThrottleBuster()

downloaed_file = throttlebuster.run_sync("http://localhost:8888/test.1.opus")

print(
    downloaded_file
)

Commandline

$ python -m throttlebuster --help

Usage: python -m throttlebuster [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Accelerate file downloads by overcoming common throttling restrictions
  envvar-prefix : THROTTLEBUSTER.

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  download  Download file using http protocol
  estimate  Estimate download duration for different tasks

Download

$ python -m throttlebuster download http://localhost:8888/test.1.opus --tasks 14

$ python -m throttlebuster download --help

Usage: tbust download [OPTIONS] URL

  Download file using http protocol

Options:
  -T, --tasks INTEGER RANGE     Number of tasks to carry out the download
                                  [default: 2; 1<=x<=1000]
  -Z, --chunk-size INTEGER        Streaming download chunk size in kilobytes
                                  [default: 256]
  -D, --dir DIRECTORY             Directory for saving the downloaded file to
                                  [default:
                                  /home/...]
  -P, --part-dir DIRECTORY        Directory for temporarily saving the
                                  downloaded file-parts to  [default:
                                  /home/...]
  -E, --part-extension TEXT       Filename extension for download parts
                                  [default: .part]
  -H, --request-headers TEXT...   Httpx request header - [key value] : default
  -C, --request-cookies TEXT...   Httpx request cookie - [key value]: default
  -B, --merge-buffer-size INTEGER RANGE
                                  Buffer size for merging the separated files
                                  in kilobytes  [default: 256; 1<=x<=102400]
  -F, --filename TEXT             Filename for the downloaded content
  -M, --mode [start|resume|auto]  Whether to start or resume incomplete
                                  download  [default: auto]
  -L, --file-size INTEGER         Size of the file to be downloaded
  -K, --colour TEXT               Progress bar display color  [default: cyan]
  -k, --keep-parts                Whether to retain the separate download
                                  parts
  -s, --simple                    Show percentage and bar only in progressbar
  -t, --test                      Just test if download is possible but do not
                                  actually download
  -a, --ascii                     Use unicode (smooth blocks) to fill the
                                  progress-bar meter
  -l, --no-leave                  Do not keep all leaves of the progressbar
  -z, --disable-progress-bar      Do not show progress_bar
  -i, --suppress-incompatible-error
                                  Do no raise error when response headers lack
                                  Etag
  -q, --quiet                     Do not show any interactive information
  -v, --verbose                   Show more detailed information  [default: 0]
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

[!TIP] Shortcuts for $ python -m throttlebuster are $ throttlebuster & $ tbust

Estimate

$ python -m throttlebuster estimate --url http://localhost:8888/miel-martin.webm 260000

       337.88 MB at 260.00 KB/s       
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Tasks ┃ Duration   ┃ Load per task ┃
┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 20    │ 1.08 Mins  │ 16.89 MB      │
│ 19    │ 1.14 Mins  │ 17.78 MB      │
│ 18    │ 1.20 Mins  │ 18.77 MB      │
│ 17    │ 1.27 Mins  │ 19.88 MB      │
│ 16    │ 1.35 Mins  │ 21.12 MB      │
│ 15    │ 1.44 Mins  │ 22.53 MB      │
│ 14    │ 1.55 Mins  │ 24.13 MB      │
│ 13    │ 1.67 Mins  │ 25.99 MB      │
│ 12    │ 1.80 Mins  │ 28.16 MB      │
│ 11    │ 1.97 Mins  │ 30.72 MB      │
│ 10    │ 2.17 Mins  │ 33.79 MB      │
│ 9     │ 2.41 Mins  │ 37.54 MB      │
│ 8     │ 2.71 Mins  │ 42.24 MB      │
│ 7     │ 3.09 Mins  │ 48.27 MB      │
│ 6     │ 3.61 Mins  │ 56.31 MB      │
│ 5     │ 4.33 Mins  │ 67.58 MB      │
│ 4     │ 5.41 Mins  │ 84.47 MB      │
│ 3     │ 7.22 Mins  │ 112.63 MB     │
│ 2     │ 10.83 Mins │ 168.94 MB     │
│ 1     │ 21.66 Mins │ 337.88 MB     │
└───────┴────────────┴───────────────┘

$ python -m throttlebuster estimate --help

Usage: python -m throttlebuster estimate [OPTIONS] THROTTLE

  Estimate download duration for different tasks

Options:
  -U, --url TEXT             Url to the target file
  -S, --size INTEGER         Size in bytes of the targeted file
  -T, --tasks INTEGER RANGE  Tasks amount to base the estimate on : Range
                             (2-30)  [1<=x<=1000]
  -j, --json                 Stdout estimates in json format
  --help                     Show this message and exit.

Throttle unit is bytes.

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