Re: External dowloaders

lftp may be another possibility since it can download magnet files and if
memory serves needs magnet followed by the magnet url to get it done.
lftp may have other failings which may make it undesireable though.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Luke, Shellworld Support wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > ? but there?s this:
> >
> > EXTERNAL:ftp:wget %s &:FALSE
>
> Ah, I missed that one. I sit corrected.
>
> So for the O.P.'s use case, something like:
>
> EXTERNAL:magnet:aria2c -d /home/me/downloads --check-integrity=true -qR
> --bt-require-crypto=true --bt-save-metadata=true '%s'
> &:FALSE
>
> Might work?
>
> Untested; that commandline probably needs work, because of the large
> number of options aria2c needs to do things for specific URL types.
>
> It will probably take several EXTERNAL entries to provide for the desired
> scenarios. It may be better to use EXTERNAL_MENU instead, in the case
> of torrent handlers anyway.
>
> Luke
>