Picofile Downloader

Introduction

Picofile is a file server with 20GB free space. This script helps you to batch download.

Installing dependencies

You can use the pip program to install the dependencies on your own. They are all listed in the requirements.txt file.

To use this method, you would proceed as:o

pip install -r requirements.txt

To make Firefox work with Python selenium, you need to install the geckodriver. The geckodriver driver will start the real firefox browser and supports Javascript. The script relies on axel to download the files. Windows users should download Axel4Windows and put it in the Windows Path.

Running the script

Refer to picofile-dl --help for a complete, up-to-date reference on the runtime options supported by this utility.

Run the script to download a single file or a bunch of files:

python picofile-dl.py [-h] [-u URL] [-f FILENAME] [--password PASSWORD] [-p PATH] [-v] [--verbose]

-u a url from picofile server to be dowloaded

-f a file name including bunch of urls each in a line

-p path to save dowloaded files (Default: /<TEMP>/picofile-dl)

--password password set with the picofile URL

-h show help

-v output version information and exit

--verbose print extra information during the download progress

Todo

Download files protected with password
An option do download the files with the browser (useful for windows user to get rid of installing Axel4Windows)