aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces.
Download
Download version 1.18.5. There you can download source distribution and binaries for OS X, Windows and Android. We also have wiki page for additional download information including various Linux distributions.
Features
Multi-Connection Download. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience.
Lightweight. aria2 doesn’t require much memory and CPU time. When disk cache is off, the physical memory usage is typically 4MiB (normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%.
Fully Featured BitTorrent Client. All features you want in BitTorrent client are available: DHT, PEX, Encryption, Magnet URI, Web-Seeding, Selective Downloads, Local Peer Discovery and UDP tracker.
Metalink Enabled. aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4), Metalink version 3 and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification, HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent integration and the various configurations for language, location, OS, etc.
Remote Control. aria2 supports RPC interface to control the aria2 process. The supported interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket) and XML-RPC.
Usage Examples
Command-line scares you off? No, aria2 is really easy to use!!
Download from WEB:
$ aria2c http://example.org/mylinux.iso
Download from 2 sources:
$ aria2c http://a/f.iso ftp://b/f.iso
Download using 2 connections per host:
$ aria2c -x2 http://a/f.iso
BitTorrent:
$ aria2c http://example.org/mylinux.torrent
BitTorrent Magnet URI:
$ aria2c 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:248D0A1CD08284299DE78D5C1ED359BB46717D8C'
Metalink:
$ aria2c http://example.org/mylinux.metalink
Download URIs found in text file:
$ aria2c -i uris.txt
Related Projects
- apt-metalink: Faster package downloads for Debian/Ubuntu
- powerpill: Pacman wrapper for parallel and segmented downloads.
- python3-aria2jsonrpc: A wrapper class around Aria2’s JSON RPC interface.
UI Frontends
- webui-aria2: Web browser interface for aria2 (2012 GSOC project)
- uGet: the Linux Download Manager
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.