codecopy / altohttp

AltoHttp provides fast and easy download management

AltoHttp

This simple library provides downloading over Http. It supports Pause and Resume in both for download and download queue

• Download file with just one line of code

• Get most useful properties of the download source such as ContentLength, Resumeability, ServerFileName..

• Due to event based programming, managing downloads is so easy

• Reports progress and speed every time when the progress is changed

• Create download queue with DownloadQueue and manage your download list

Nuget

Get AltoHttp at Nuget

Install-Package AltoHttp

#Usage

Downloading is so simple

HttpDownloader downloader = new HttpDownloader(targetUrl,targetPath);
downloader.Start(); 
//PAUSE
downloader.Pause();
//RESUME
downloader.Resume(); //downloader.Resume(filePathToResume) resumes from the existing file

Queue using

DownloadQueue myQueue = new DownloadQueue();
myQueue.Add(targetUrl1,targetPath1);
myQueue.Add(targetUrl2,targetPath2);
myQueue.StartAsync();
//PAUSE
myQueue.Pause();
//RESUME
myQueue.ResumeAsync();

New Features:

• Ability to edit Http request and response with events

• Using DownloadInfoReceived event you can ensure the headers (Content-Length, Resumeability, FileName) are received

New Features on 01.01.2021

• Resume capability improved to be able to resume on some sites that uses chunked stream e.g Google Drive

• Native messaging methods added for who wants to integrate with browser using extension

• To prevent resume on file corruption, file validation based on MD5 added

• New exceptions defined to be able to handle exceptions in UI

• Download in some sites which Content-Length returns -1 (Unknown) succesfully handled

• DemoApplication changed and improved

Demo Application