axel-wrapper

Python wrapper of axel, a light command line download accelerator

Installation

axel-wrapper depends on axel, so you must install axel before python-axel

Install axel

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install axel

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S axel

Install axel-wrapper

pip install axel-wrapper

Basic usage

from axel import axel

# Download http://someurl/file.zip with 500 parallel connection
file_path = axel('http://someurl/file.zip', num_connections=500)