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)