#mt-console
A platform independent console application for mt-downloader. This app is only an abstraction of what the original library can do. To get a complete list of features you should see mt-downloader.
This fork makes the help option work as advertised
##Installation
Install this globally using the conventional npm installation command.
$ npm install -g mt-console##Usage
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You can get started by using the
--helpoption. This lists out all the possible operations in mtd.$ mtd --help
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To start a new download you will have to provide a
--urland a download--filepath.$ mtd --url="http://path/to/file.zip" --file="/Downloads/file.zip"
NOTE: Make sure to use the double quotes to avoid possible problems.
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To resume an old download, you just need to provide the path to the file with .mtd extension that is temporarily created at the time of download.
$ mtd --file="/Downloads/file.zip.mtd" -
You can also pass custom options such as:
--count: To set a custom number of download threads. It defaults to what is set in the mt-downloader library.--range: You can specify a custom download range. This feature is particularly useful when you want to download a part of a video file. Say you just want to download the later half of the file, you can then set the range as 50-100. Its an optional parameter and defaults to 0-100.--port: You can specify a custom HTTP port. It defaults to 80.--method: You can specify the download method such as PUT and POST by default it is set to GET.--wd: Shows the current working directory. You can update this using--set-wdoption.--set-wd: You can set you current working directory using this command. This is particularly helpful if you want to avoid typing the complete download path with the--fileparameter. Instead you can set a common path for downloads and just specify the name of the file. The app will automatically combine the two and create the complete file path.$ mtd --set-wd="/Users/user/Downloads/" $ Working directory updated to /Users/user/Downloads/ $ mtd --wd Working directory: /Users/user/Downloads/ $ mtd --url="http://path/to/file_one.zip" --file="file_one.zip" $ mtd --url="http://path/to/file_two.zip" --file="file_two.zip"
Both file_one.zip and file_two.zip will be downloaded at the same location
/Users/user/Downloads/because that is the default download path.--clear-wd: Clears the saved working directory.--timeout: Sometimes the connections are established but are not transferring any data. Using this setting you can set the maximum amount of time in seconds that it should wait before quitting.--auto-name: Generates the file name on its own by parsing the last element of the url. You will not be required to set the--fileparameter while starting a new download. It will also automatically prepend the generated file name with the working directory specified by the--set-wdoption.--headers: You can specify headers by seperating them using semicolons as follows$ mtd --url="http://path/to/file_one.zip" --file="file_one.zip" --headers="user-agent:crawl-bot;cookie:abc%3D100%3Bpqr%3D200"
NOTE: make sure you encode the header values parameters while sending else they might get escaped while parsing.