aria2
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Nov 24, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I like using the aria2[0] download utility”
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“you can use curl, wget, aria2 etc to access online content”
“uses aria2 for HTTP download, which has resumability.”
“aria2c is great.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Data: aria2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“it doesn't fully support retries”
“Aria2 is the way.”
“I like using the aria2[0] download utility”
“download them with aria2”
“you can use curl, wget, aria2 etc to access online content”
“The main difference from tools like aria2”
“uses aria2 for HTTP download, which has resumability.”
“aria2c is great.”