DownloadAssistant

Introducing the Download Assistant Library for .Net 6.0! 🚀

Looking for a powerful tool to effortlessly manage your download requests? Look no further! 🙌

🔗 Built on top of the Shard.Requests library, our Download Assistant Library is here to handle all your downloads with ease. 💪

With its intuitive classes, this library simplifies the process of downloading your desired files. Perfect for beginners, it offers a seamless user experience and great download capabilities. 💯

Simply create an object and let our assistant take care of the rest! ⚡️

⏳ Worried about failed downloads? Our assistant automatically retries downloads and tries to ensure a successful completion.

✨ Additionally, if the server throttles the connection, our assistant has the capability to download a file in parts, significantly speeding up the download time.

Get started with the Download Assistant Library today and experience the convenience and efficiency it brings to your download workflow. 🌟

Tested with more than 5000 simultaneously HTTP Requests and file sized over 80Gb

• Easy to use! 🔓
• Efficient ♾️
• ✨ Resume able file downloader! ✨

Table of Contents

• Features
• Information
• Setup

Features

• StatusRequest: Calls a HEAD request and returns a response message with the header information.🔎
• SiteRequest: Is parsing a the HTML body of a website and list all references and files. 🔖
• GetRequest: To download the response content into a file.
  • This is an HTTP file downloader with these functions:
  • Pause and Start a download ▶
  • Get the filename and extension from the server 📥
  • Timeout function ⌛
  • Monitor the progress of the download with IProgress<float>
  • Can set path and filename
  • Set download speed limit
  • Download a specified range of a file 🔛
• LoadRequest Extends the GetRequest
  • Download a file into chunks ⛓️
  • Exclude extensions for safety (.exe; .bat; etc...) 🛡️

Information

It is available on Github:

• Repository: https://github.com/TypNull/DownloadAssistant
• Wiki: https://github.com/TypNull/DownloadAssistant/wiki
• Issues: https://github.com/TypNull/DownloadAssistant/issues

📦 Installation

You can install Shard.DownloadAssistant using NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio.

Here are the steps:

1. Open your project in Visual Studio.
2. Navigate to Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....
3. Search for Shard.DownloadAssistant.
4. Click on Install.

Usage

Import the Library.

using DownloadAssistant.Requests;

Then create a new LoadRequest. This downloads a file into the download's folder of the PC with a ".part" file and uses the name that the server provides.

//To download a file and store it in "Downloads" folder
new LoadRequest("[Your URL]"); // e.g. https://www.sample-videos.com/video123/mkv/240/big_buck_bunny_240p_30mb.mkv

To set options on the Request create a RequestOption or for a LoadRequest a LoadRequestOption.

// Create an option for a LoadRequest
  LoadRequestOptions requestOptions = new LoadRequestOptions
{
    // Sets the filename of the download without the extension
    // The extension will be added automatically!
    FileName = "downloadfile.*",
    
    // If this download has priority (default is Normal)
    Priority = RequestPriority.High,
    
    // Specifies the destination path for the downloaded file
    // (default is the download folder)
    DestinationPath = @"C:\Users\[Your Username]\Desktop",
    
    // If this request contains a heavy workload, put it in a second thread (default is false)
    IsDownload = true,
    
    // Determines whether the downloader should override an existing file, create a new file, or append to an existing file (default is Append)
    // Resume function is only available with append mode!
    Mode = LoadMode.Create,
    
    // Chunk a file to download faster (3 chunks in this case)
    Chunks = 3,
    
    // Merge the chunked files faster while making progress
    MergeWhileProgress = true,
    
    // Notify when the request completes successfully
    RequestCompleated = (IRequest? req, string? url) => Console.WriteLine($"Finished successfully: {url}")
};

And use it in the request.

//To download a file and store it on the Desktop with a different name
new LoadRequest("https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin",requestOptions);

To wait on the request, use await or Wait();.

await new LoadRequest("https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin",requestOptions).Task;
//new LoadRequest("https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin",requestOptions).Wait();

🌟 Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this library, submit a pull request or open an issue. We appreciate your help!

📜 License

DownloadAssistant is licensed under the MIT license.

Free Code and Free to Use

Have fun!