Download slowly slows down? about anime-downloader

[WhoPunkedU]

I only mentioned IDM because, in my case, it is worth the extra work to get the URLs and then rename the files as after downloading. Although it would be cool, I wasn't suggesting to implement into the animedownloader tool. Sorry for the confusion.

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 16:19 Vishnunarayan K I ***@***.***> wrote: @WhoPunkedU <https://github.com/WhoPunkedU> AFAIK, IDM does not expose an api for downloading. So it would be impossible to support it. @filo97 <https://github.com/Filo97> I have implemented the ability for downloading through external tools in master branch. Can you try it out and see if it fixes the download speeds for you? *You need to have aria2 installed.* Use the below command. anime dl 'code geass' --external-downloader "{aria2}" Replace code geass with your favourite anime 😅. (Code geass is awesome, btw) Installation of dev version is mentioned in the readme. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AmjqSKPoiUHdJ8C_wG8yf8VRPc2F80nPks5uA-jegaJpZM4UkXfR> .

[vn-ki]

I'm not sure why this happens. When I get around to a windows a machine I will try this out and verify. Does this happen with every download?

Detailed installation instructions is available in the wiki.

Installing on linux is easy enough. If you have python and pip installed, do

pip install anime-downloader

If you want kissanime support,

pip install anime-downloader[cloudflare]

If you don't have python or pip installed, the installation depends on your distro. On ubuntu,

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

should do the trick.

[vn-ki]

After a quick google search, I came across this. Can you check it out and reply?

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/05/windows-10-limiting-internet-speed/

[NathanDreamweaver]

Sorry, i was busy, however i got my hands on a linux machine and lo and behold.... It slows down. I also got a friend to test for me on THEIR linux machine. Still slows down. So it has nothing to do with windows 10.

[vn-ki]

Can you try downloading the stream using some other tool, maybe IDM (if it supports downloading streams). On Linux you can try it with aria2. Use --url flag to get the stream url and try downloading with that.

Aria2 and IDM should be faster given they used multiple threads for downloads, but should give a general idea about average speed. If there is hell lot of difference, I'll look into it.

[NathanDreamweaver]

i do remember once using the script for tampermonkey to download from kissanime with IDM and downloads never slowing down. Gonna try with this right now.

[NathanDreamweaver]

With aria2c it still slows down but with IDM it's constantly 5 megabytes per second from kissanime.

[NathanDreamweaver]

So a HUGE difference

[NathanDreamweaver]

With another download manager such as jdownloader it slows down.

[vn-ki]

Sorry for the delayed reply.

If aria2 can't download it full speed it might be hard to achieve full speed with this tool. IDM might be using multiple simultaneous connections to achieve maximum bandwidth (This can be achieved with aria2c -s 4, if I remember correctly), but this is a discouraged practice.

In any case, I will investigate the slowing down.

[NathanDreamweaver]

Alright, thank you very much

[fqrious]

Streaming sites generally slows down your transfer after loading the first X (say 30) seconds.

[vn-ki]

In that case, as a temporary fix maybe we can add an option to use an external downloader like aria2.

[WhoPunkedU]

Idm is a free software that is very useful when it comes to this. Although there's some technicalities, it downloads files faster than my browser or anime downloader. It downloads 4 files at a time at really fast speeds without slowing down It is a bandwidth hog though

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On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 16:46 Vishnunarayan K I ***@***.***> wrote: In that case, as a temporary fix maybe we can add an option to use an external downloader like aria2. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AmjqSNKgtEdq4Q83I3-uz--Qsl8Exvi8ks5t_qk6gaJpZM4UkXfR> .

[vn-ki]

@WhoPunkedU AFAIK, IDM does not expose an api for downloading. So it would be impossible to support it.

@filo97 I have implemented the ability for downloading through external tools in master branch. Can you try it out and see if it fixes the download speeds for you?
You need to have aria2 installed.
Use the below command.

anime dl 'code geass' --external-downloader "{aria2}"

Replace code geass with your favourite anime 😅. (Code geass is awesome, btw)

Installation of dev version is mentioned in the readme.

[vn-ki]

I have added partially fixed to this issue as the latest version can use external cli based downloaders.

[vn-ki]

This has been fixed in master. The newly introduced --chunk-size argument can be used to counter throttling.

[vn-ki]

Fixed in 3.4.0. I still recommend using aria2 for downloading.