mego 💾

Mego is a simple megatools command wrapper, allowing you to use the megatools dl command with a download list of links and adds an auto-try tool.

Ideas

Megatools is a collection of programs for accessing Mega.nz services from a command line of your desktop or server.

Auto-retry

While using the megatools dl command to download a bunch of large files, I often found myself being blocked by Mega because I exceeded the bandwidth limit (aka. error 509).

Indeed, Mega allows users to download a few (apparently not fixed) number of GB per day (once again, apparently not fixed).

By default megatools dl only retries 3 times when this error occurred, preventing the download of file during the night or while being away from the computer. To fix this problem, mego checks the error code returned by megatools dl, and retry if the command failed.

List of files

Another problem that I found while using megatools dl is the lack of options to download multiple files at once, and keeping track of the completed ones.

To solve this problem, mego accepts as arguments a path of file(s) containing a list of Mega download links. mego will open the file and start downloading the files listed in it. Once the download of the file successfully terminated, mego will add a # before the link and write it in the file, preventing the next execution to re-download the file. mego will also mark invalid links it found with the #- string.

Compatibility

Because this script is a wrapper around the megatools command, it heavily depends on the outputs of the command. If you have problems using this script, be sure to use the version 1.11.0 (04.04.20) of megatools. You can download the latest version here or use the megatools.PKGBUILD file available in this repo.

Usage

Usage of mego:

  mego [-c COMMAND_PATH] [-s SPEED] [-p] [-r INTERVAL] LINK... LINK_PATH...

Application Options:
  -s, --speed-limit=SPEED       Speed limit passed to megatools dl as --limit-speed (default: 0)
  -p, --pipe-outputs            Pipe megatools's stdout and stderr
  -r, --retry=INTERVAL          Interval between two retries (default: 15min)
  -c, --command=COMMAND_PATH    Path to the megatools command (default: megatools)

NB: The whole content of a list file is read and kept in memory. Every time a file is downloaded, the content of the list file will be overwritten. So please do not use a list file as a queue during execution.