Imagine you have a 1-hour video hosted as an M3U8 playlist. A standard downloader might take 10 minutes because it processes segments sequentially. By using aria2c as an "accelerator," you can saturate your bandwidth and finish in under a minute.
aria2 = aria2p.API(aria2p.Client(host="http://localhost:6800")) playlist = m3u8.load("stream.m3u8") for seg in playlist.segments: aria2.add_uri(seg.uri, options="split": 16, "max-connection-per-server": 16) aria2c m3u8
:Save these URLs into a file named segments.txt . Run aria2 : aria2c -i segments.txt -j 10 -x 16 Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard -j 10 : Runs 10 segment downloads at the same time. Imagine you have a 1-hour video hosted as an M3U8 playlist