torget

Description

The tool downloads large files over a locally installed Tor client by aggressively discovering a pool of fast circuits and using them in parallel. With slow servers, this strategy bypasses per-IP traffic shaping, resulting in much faster downloads.

Onion services are fully supported.

Building From Source

$ git clone https://github.com/mtrojnar/torget.git
[...]
$ cd torget
$ go build torget.go

Using

$ ./torget -h
torget 2.0, a fast large file downloader over locally installed Tor
Copyright © 2021-2023 Michał Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara@stunnel.org>
Licensed under GNU/GPL version 3

Usage: torget [FLAGS] URL
  -circuits int
        concurrent circuits (default 20)
  -min-lifetime int
        minimum circuit lifetime (seconds) (default 10)
  -verbose
        diagnostic details
$ ./torget https://download.tails.net/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.16.1/tails-amd64-5.16.1.img
Output file: tails-amd64-5.16.1.img
Download length: 1326448640 bytes
Download complete