conf file for options would be helpful

[netllama]

Thanks for this project, it looks super useful for integrating into another project that I maintain.

One thing that would help a lot is to support a configuration file that could save options so that they don't need to be provided for every invocation. I'm primarily thinking of the value for the --secret option, but any of them could be handy.

[pawamoy]

Oh, I'm pretty sure you can do that with aria2's configuration file, usually located at ~/.config/aria2/aria2.conf. Check out its man pages, everything is explained there.

In your case, you'll want to set the rpc-secretvalue in your configuration file 🙂

[netllama]

Right, but I already did that, and yet aria2p never uses it. If I invoke aria2c, it finds the value of rpc-secret as expected.

$ aria2p
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/aria2p", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aria2p/cli.py", line 74, in main
    api.client.get_version()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aria2p/client.py", line 1478, in get_version
    return self.call(self.GET_VERSION)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aria2p/client.py", line 234, in call
    return self.res_or_raise(self.post(self.get_payload(method, params, msg_id=msg_id)))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aria2p/client.py", line 360, in res_or_raise
    raise Client.response_as_exception(response)
aria2p.client.ClientException: Unauthorized

aria2p -s 'blah'
<no exception>

[pawamoy]

Aaaaah indeed, sorry, I failed to see that. Yes, maybe aria2p could try to read aria2's configuration file when it exists, so it can automatically use the right secret and other options.

[snowman]

Please consider support aria2p configuration.

[pawamoy]

I am considering it, just didn't get the time to work on it, PRs welcome 🙂 !

[snowman]

You can add an alias for aria2p:

alias aria2p="aria2p --secret 343ab16f-cb48-4f15-8f24-e42bf04cb68a"

[skull-squadron]

It should read the secret from -s for a one-of run (infrequent use and testing) and then fallback to ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/aria2p/config.toml SECRET if present (preferred). The problem of passing a secret by CLI argument is that it's insecure and annoying. Reading another program's secrets would be fragile, so doing this should be avoided.

[pawamoy]

aria2's own config file format is probably super stable. Why do you say it would be fragile?

In any case, we must support setting the secret in an aria2p config file, because both files (aria2 conf and aria2p conf) could be on different hosts, so you're right.