[LLXX]

I'm writing my own download manager (the FlashGet was pretty good, but I now I need something a little less resource-consuming and more open-source), currently I've only implemented part of the UI and most of the HTTP core, but planning to add FTP next and possibly other protocols in the future (no P2P or Torrents though, that should go in another program).

Currently decided features:

- Queue multiple files / simultaneous download up to 255 at once
- Start/Pause/Resume/Stop
- Up to 255 connections/split parts per file with overlap for redundancy/error-checking
- Bandwidth limiter

What I'm hoping to gain with this thread is a list of other features that you find useful in a download manager that you use regularly (including additional protocols to support). No UI garnishes please, I'm not intending this to be some overly graphical program but rather something minimal that stays in the tray and just silently downloads in the background.

Name suggestions are also welcome (currently it's called HTTPdown as that's what it'll support initially, but I'm planning to change the name once it supports more than HTTP).

When I feel like I've had enough with it, I'll release as open-source public domain software.

This post has been edited by LLXX: 11 December 2006 - 03:02 AM

[Slimy]

Off the top of my head:
- Download from multiple servers, or just the fastest server
- Support for IE7, FF2, Opera9
- Ability to download everything off one page
- Obvious things like seeing size in bytes/kilobytes/megabytes
- ETA, before and during the download
- Average Download speed at the end once completed and during the download

[MGadAllah]

I'm very interested to use it
What about:

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Download Spy

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Wise Download

Also I'd like to suggest :
add a search box with a drop down menu that contains most famous download websites like download.com or what so ever you like, and you may make this field flexible to accept add more websites.

This post has been edited by MGadAllah: 15 December 2006 - 01:30 PM

[LLXX]

Slimy, on Dec 14 2006, 07:36 PM, said:

- Download from multiple servers, or just the fastest server

It already supports downloading several files at once.

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Support for IE7, FF2, Opera9

I might get to that once the main program is done.

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Ability to download everything off one page

See above.

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Obvious things like seeing size in bytes/kilobytes/megabytes
- ETA, before and during the download
- Average Download speed at the end once completed and during the download

"Obvious"... see for yourself:



GetBrain? Sounds more like an educational program to me...

...and GetIt is already taken by (not surprisingly) another download manager: http://www.simtel.ne...duct_page=39290

Edit: take a look at this 143 bytes download manager: http://www.simtel.net/product.php[id]99158...teID]simtel.net

This post has been edited by LLXX: 15 December 2006 - 04:16 AM

[MGadAllah]

removed

This post has been edited by MGadAllah: 15 December 2006 - 01:33 PM

[n7Epsilon]

Could you implement simple user-defined (and/or extension-defined) categorization. In the Add Job/Download dialog or something ?

Categories could be stored in an ini/xml file or in the registry.

[DigeratiPrime]

#1 request make it portable

[LLXX]

It definitely will be portable, and a bit smaller than other download managers (estimated to be <100Kb).

It will read configuration settings and other data such as current downloads and categories from INI files.

[Camarade_Tux]

Many files are hosted on free.fr.

This is a fench ISP and they have a very bad habit : when you use multiple chunks to download a file and their server are under load, there's corruption at the limit of the chunks.
It would be nice to have something that would split the download in n chunks and then download [(sizeof(file)/n)+10KB] for each of them instead of just [sizeof(file)/n].

[MGadAllah]

What about

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One Click Download

And you can use any slogan with name related like a one contains number one followed by an arrow with a head down like this one

This post has been edited by MGadAllah: 15 December 2006 - 01:46 PM

[LLXX]

MGadAllah, on Dec 15 2006, 02:45 PM, said:

What about

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One Click Download

And you can use any slogan with name related like a one contains number one followed by an arrow with a head down like this one

That icon is very appropriate, as I was thinking of putting an upload manager in it!

@Camarade_Tux:

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with overlap for redundancy/error-checking

It'll even be able to download a file twice, the amount of overlap is adjustable from 0 to the size of the file.

[MGadAllah]

LLXX, on Dec 17 2006, 03:38 AM, said:

That icon is very appropriate, as I was thinking of putting an upload manager in it!

I'm glad that you like it.
as long as you think about add an upload manager, what do you think

1 Click Away

and regarding the slogan you can do what so ever you like with it, I mean colors, arrows looking, ...etc
And you can consider changing arrow colors with every release to let looks different and much better

[kamrananvaar]

hi
what about download using url pathway a feature i like in getright, so even if the download file has same name it can be placed in different folder automatically
also Download List Generator would be great for downloading pics etc

thanx

[Mamoun]

The orbit download manager?
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

[MGadAllah]

Mamoun, on Jan 1 2007, 04:37 PM, said:

The orbit download manager?
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

is it your work LLXX?
or you talk about another thing Mamoun

[Claude]

access to authenticated servers ie. you can login to rapidshare.com on a premium account

This post has been edited by prankst3r: 01 January 2007 - 09:55 AM

[MGadAllah]

Actually this orbit one has a great feature to be free
I will use it for a while

[Tarun]

Have a look at the features in the popular extension for Firefox called DownThemAll!.

[MGadAllah]

Tarun, on Jan 1 2007, 06:40 PM, said:

Have a look at the features in the popular extension for Firefox called DownThemAll!.

This is a very good one too
All will take its turn in order...LOL