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py2js33996yThere is aria2c available already for Linux. Why bother with internet download manager
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py2js33996y@tahnik yes fun is good but if you made it because you couldn't find any alternatives then it's not good, don't reinvent the wheel
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tahnik390936y@JoshBent @py2js actually, pyload setup is not user friendly at all. Both aria2c and pyload uses web interface, none of them have desktop app.
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C0D4694966y@py2js what’s wrong with reinventing the wheel for a personal project?
@tahnik kudos, any chance off open sourcing it? -
py2js33996y@tahnik aria2c is just a terminal application no gui just command line. Don't know about pyload though
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tahnik390936y@C0D4 yeah of course. I am just testing it right now, I have the basic downloader working. But it's messy as hell. Will open source it once I have a good prototype.
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py2js33996y@C0D4 there is clearly written that if you made it for fun or you made it better then it's okay otherwise no need to reinvent the wheel
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@tahnik you didn't mention them, that's all, I don't think it's a bad learning project, but it feels more like an excuse when you say there wasn't any alternatives
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Would you share some screenshot of your app? Would like to check it out or even try it.
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tahnik390936y@iihirotoii it's way too basic at the moment. I will try to release it if I have time to add all the features.
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tahnik390936yhaha guys, a lot of work need to done on this. But here is an update: https://devrant.io/rants/1387386
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Internet Download Manager costs about $24. It's not cross platform either. uGet UI looks old as fuck and shows positive in virustotal.
So I decided to do what most other devs would do in my situtation. I created my own download manager in QT 💪. It uses 16 different threads to download files and pretty much utilises all my bandwidth.
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