mega-d-l's Introduction

MEGA D/l

macOS workflow and shell script to download files from public mega.nz shares using the megatools

Minimum OS: OS X 10.8

click on a MEGA URL (or select a bunch of MEGA URLs), and select Download from MEGA from Services in the contextual menu
on first run, MEGA D/l will ask you to select the location of your MEGA download folder

You can reset your download folder choice by running the following command:

rm -rf $HOME/Library/Preferences/local.lcars.MEGAdl.plist

After that MEGA D/l will let you select a different MEGA download folder.

Installations

megatools [prerequisite]

More information: megatools

install using Homebrew with brew install megatools (or with a similar manager)

Main installation

Download the latest DMG and open

Workflow

Double-click on the workflow file to install
If you encounter problems, open it with Automator and save/install from there

Main shell script [optional]

Only necessary if for some reason you want to run this from the shell or another shell script. For normal use the workflow will be sufficient.

Move the script megadl.sh to e.g. /usr/local/bin
In your shell enter chmod +x /usr/local/bin/megadl.sh
Run the script with megadl.sh '<URL>' (it has to be in your $PATH)

terminal-notifier [optional, recommended]

More information: terminal-notifier

You need to have Spotlight enabled for mdfind to locate the terminal-notifier.app on your volume; if you don't install terminal-notifier, or if you have deactivated Spotlight, the MEGA D/l scripts will call notifications via AppleScript instead

install using Homebrew with brew install terminal-notifier (or with a similar manager)
move or copy terminal-notifier.app from the Homebrew Cellar to a suitable location, e.g. to /Applications, /Applications/Utilities, or $HOME/Applications

Uninstall

Remove the following files or folders:

/path/to/your/MEGADownloadFolder/MEGAdupes
$HOME/Library/Caches/local.lcars.MEGAdl
$HOME/Library/Preferences/local.lcars.MEGAdl.plist
$HOME/Library/Services/Download\ from\ MEGA.workflow
/usr/local/bin/megadl.sh

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