agent-dla

Quickstart

1. Needs Node 22 or newer. Run without installing (pin the version you have reviewed): npx agent-dla@1.0.1 "URL" -o FILE
2. Throttled host? Raise connections: add -n 16 (default 8, max 128, at most 32 transfer at once).
3. Verify the result: add --sha256 EXPECTED_HASH. On a mismatch the output is deleted and the command exits 1.
4. For machine-readable progress add --json (events on stdout, human logs on stderr).
5. If it stops, run the same command again to resume (a finished download is reported as cached and not fetched again). Exit codes: 0 complete, 1 failed, 2 usage error.

Example (runs code on your machine)

npx agent-dla@1.0.1 "https://example.com/big-file.bin" -o big-file.bin -n 16 --sha256 EXPECTED_SHA256 --json

Authentication

No account. Optional --header for a bearer token to the original origin only.

Limits

Connections: 1 to 128, default 8. Requests per host depend on the server; the tool honors Retry-After.

Known traps

Quote the URL in PowerShell (a bare & breaks it). Servers without Range support fall back to one stream. Free public proxies are for IP rotation, not speed. If one URL serves different content per account, use a different -o name per account.

How current is this?

Tested by the author on 2026-10-16. Documentation read on 2026-10-16. The entry point has not been checked automatically yet.

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