"By far my go to app for downloading anything. aria2c [link] downloads anything"...

sirn · on April 7, 2016

Probably not quite what you meant (since it still require youtube-dl), but youtube-dl has built-in support for downloading using aria2c as a backend.

    youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

baldfat · on April 8, 2016

I now have a new alias thank you!

nopcode · on April 7, 2016

aria2c supports HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP and Torrent/Metalink.

Many applications (youtube-dl through --external-downloader) can use aria2c as a "downloader backend".

aria2c + https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 offers a very fast, portable and simple download manager.

vram22 · on April 7, 2016

Good question, I'd like to know too.

aria is also controllable by Python via XML-RPC - seen that in the docs, on my stack to try, could be useful.