open idm

Inspiration

I always wondered how internet download manager downloads files with upto five times the actual speed will take , the only downside with it was it had a free plan of upto thirty days so i decided to make my own download manager similar or better than idm and open source.

What it does

Basically what it does it acts as a download manager for your downloads with increased download speed,i have also created a gui for downloading youtube videos and choosing a custom saving directory chooser,.

How we built it

I used python entirely for the last two months i am yet to see whether i can integrate c also.

Challenges we ran into

I wanted the code to be universal to be able to be used in both windows and linux but there file system and directory naming are different so i am currently working in first the installer to detect the operating system before installing the required packages

Accomplishments that we're proud of

so far it can download files with aria2c protocol.

What we learned

That idm splits files into smaller sizes then downloads many parts at the same time then combine them, so i plan on implementing this on my own project

What's next for open idm

By june i should release it for tryouts and then see if it can replace Idm for those of us who like our downloads faster.

Built With

• python