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aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download
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utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be
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manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. Its features include:
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- Multi-Connection Download.
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aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize
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your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience.
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- Lightweight.
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aria2 doesn't require much memory and CPU time. The physical memory usage is
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typically 4MiB (normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU
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usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%.
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- Fully Featured BitTorrent Client.
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All features you want in BitTorrent client are available: DHT, PEX,
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Encryption, Magnet URI, Web-Seeding, Selective Downloads and Local Peer
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Discovery.
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- Metalink Enabled.
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aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4),
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Metalink version 3 and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification,
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HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent integration and the various configurations for language,
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location, OS, etc.
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- Remote Control.
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aria2 supports RPC interface to control the aria2 process. The supported
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interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket) and XML-RPC.
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WWW: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
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