From darkstarsword at gmail.com Fri Jun 28 03:53:44 2013 From: darkstarsword at gmail.com (Ian Munsie) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:53:44 +1000 Subject: [axel-users] Announce: wget2axel.py Message-ID: Hey everyone, Yesterday I hacked together a script to create an axel state file for a file partially downloaded outside of axel (e.g. with wget or a web browser), so that it can be resumed with axel. It's in my junk code on github here - https://raw.github.com/DarkStarSword/junk/master/wget2axel.py It doesn't have any polish yet (I only hacked it up because it was faster than redownloading the first part of the file that I already had), so it doesn't have any built in usage and there are no doubt a lot of edge cases that it doesn't handle properly (redirects, anything other than http[s]) yet, but it did the trick for me and might be useful to others. It's fairly straightforward to use - give it the URL as the first parameter, and the filename of the partially downloaded file as the second. It does a http HEAD on the URL to find the total size and prints out a bunch of debugging to show what connection ranges it generates (it calculates enough connections such that there will be 4 to 5 connections that cover the undownloaded part of the file). Then point axel at the same URL and it should pick up the state file and resume the download. I've used it a couple of times and was able to verify the checksum of the file afterwards - I'd still recommend verifying the checksums whenever possible in case there's some edge case I missed. Of course it won't help you if the server doesn't support resuming downloads - there's no magic here. Cheers, -Ian -- http://sites.google.com/site/DarkStarJunkSpace -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/ -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html