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I was using a downloader manager, but recently discovered it contains some potentially dangerous modules.

One of the features available was the ability to import a list of files from a text file to download multiple files simultaneously, but now I need to remove that download manager.

Are there some other download managers, or other ways, I can achieve this?

Jawa
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    What about [wget](http://superuser.com/questions/25538/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-of-wget)? – Paolo Gibellini Dec 19 '13 at 08:49
  • @PaoloGibellini: AFAIK wget is not a real download manager - for example it is not able to efficiently manage parallel downloads from a single queue of URLs and without external help it does not do parallel downloads at all. ...or am I wrong? – pabouk - Ukraine stay strong Dec 19 '13 at 09:22
  • @pabouk: It's true, wget doesn't support parallel download, but can be invoked multiple times in a command (see [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430810/wget-download-with-multiple-connection-simultaneously) for example) and it is (at the moment) not dangerous. Surely there are more advanced solutions, like [aria2](http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) or similar, but I've not yet tried them. – Paolo Gibellini Dec 19 '13 at 09:45
  • For the question itself, wouldn't it be an alternative to rewrite it to be a generic solution for a text-file in general: say, how one could do this on Windows, rather than wanting a product specifically? (Disclaimer: my answer approaches it this way.) – Thor Dec 21 '13 at 18:45
  • @Thor How do they classify here if a question seeks product recomendations or not. What about these... [Download manager for OSX](http://superuser.com/questions/215890/download-manager-for-mac-os-x?rq=1), [Windows equivalent of wget](http://superuser.com/questions/25538/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-of-wget?lq=1) – usr280492 Dec 21 '13 at 21:34
  • @swapna It depends, but to go on your examples: number one is closed as constructive, and in my subjective opinion I would remark that the second one is looking for the exact same, but for a different plattform. Other answers here could also be ways to emulate the same application on the different platform. – Thor Dec 23 '13 at 20:39
  • This is the first Google result, and it's closed. Good job everyone. – endolith Apr 26 '23 at 01:54

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You're better off using a more permanent solution to the issue, by say, using PowerShell to get a list of download items and then send this to whatever download manager you want to use.

  1. Start Windows Powershell with Win + R, then enter powershell.

  2. Run the following snippet with appropriate adjustments.

    Get-Content C:\path\to\file.txt | ForEach-Object { Start-Process "C:\path\to\download-manager.exe" -ArgumentList $_ }

The above line assumes that you have a text-file where every download is on its own line.

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