aria2c

Fast download utility. Supports HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. More information: https://aria2.github.io.

• Download a specific URI to a file:

aria2c "url"

• Download a file from a URI with a specific output name:

aria2c --out path/to/file "url"

• Download multiple different files in parallel:

aria2c --force-sequential false "url1 url2 …"

• Download the same file from different mirrors and verify the checksum of the downloaded file:

aria2c --checksum sha-256=hash "url1" "url2" "urlN"

• Download the URIs listed in a file with a specific number of parallel downloads:

aria2c --input-file path/to/file --max-concurrent-downloads number_of_downloads

• Download with multiple connections:

aria2c --split number_of_connections "url"

• FTP download with username and password:

aria2c --ftp-user username --ftp-passwd password "url"

• Limit download speed in bytes/s:

aria2c --max-download-limit speed "url"