dfget

dfget is the client of Dragonfly. You can use the dfget command in the command line tool.

Name

dfget - the client of Dragonfly, a non-interactive P2P downloader.

Synopsis

dfget -u [URL] [options]...

Options

  1.   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  2.   --url URL, -u URL     will download a file from this url
  3.   --output OUTPUT, -O OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
  4.                         output path that not only contains the dir part but
  5.                         also name part
  6.   --md5 MD5, -m MD5     expected file md5
  7.   --callsystem CALLSYSTEM
  8.                         system name that executes dfget,its format is
  9.                         company_department_appName
  10.   --notbs               not back source when p2p fail
  11.   --locallimit LOCALLIMIT, -s LOCALLIMIT
  12.                         rate limit about a single download task,its format is
  13.                         20M/m/K/k
  14.   --totallimit TOTALLIMIT
  15.                         rate limit about the whole host,its format is
  16.                         20M/m/K/k
  17.   --identifier IDENTIFIER, -i IDENTIFIER
  18.                         identify download task,it is available merely when md5
  19.                         param not exist
  20.   --timeout TIMEOUT, --exceed TIMEOUT, -e TIMEOUT
  21.                         download timeout(second)
  22.   --filter FILTER, -f FILTER
  23.                         filter some query params of url ,e.g. -f 'key&sign'
  24.                         will filter key and sign query param.in this
  25.                         way,different urls correspond one same download task
  26.                         that can use p2p mode
  27.   --showbar, -b         show progress bar
  28.   --pattern {p2p,cdn}, -p {p2p,cdn}
  29.                         download pattern,cdn pattern not support totallimit
  30.   --version, -v         version
  31.   --node NODE, -n NODE  specify nodes
  32.   --console             show log on console
  33.   --header HEADER       http header, e.g. --header="Accept: *" --header="Host:
  34.                         abc"
  35.   --dfdaemon            caller is from df-daemon

Files

/etc/dragonfly.conf

This is the default configuration file for dfget, which specifies the address of the SuperNode.

  1. [node]
  2. address=127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2

${HOME}/.small-dragonfly

This directory is created by dfget when you start it for the first time.

  1. .small-dragonfly/
  2. ├── data/               # stores temporary data downloaded by dfget
  3. ├── dfdaemon/
  4. │   └── data/           # default, stores temporary data generated by dfdaemon
  5. ├── logs/
  6. │   ├── dfclient.log    # dfget's log file
  7. │   ├── dfserver.log    # log file of peer server launched by dfget
  8. │   └── dfdaemon.log    # dfdaemon's log file
  9. └── meta/
  10.     └── host.meta       # stores meta information: peer server port