Description

Batch download files from libgen.

Notes

• Changes on library genesis often cause libgen_dl to fail. If this happens please open an issue and I'll try to fix it.

Current status (Tue Oct 1 2024)

Libgen.rs down. Using libgen.is.

Current status (Sat Feb 17 2024)

libgen.lol certificates expired, for this reason aria2c has to be called with --disable-ipv6 --check-certificate=false.

Dependecies

• aria2c (provided by aria2)

Usage

mkdir "hello"
cd hello
libgen_dl.sh "hello world"

libgen_dl.sh downloads files by calling aria2c with --max-tries 20, it also collects all failed links (after 20 tries) in ./libgen_dl/file_download_failures. You can use libgen_dl.sh --retry to re-try downloading these failed items. After finishing downloading with --retry, libgen_dl will update ./libgen_dl/file_download_failures and report the number of remaining failed downloads. You can re-run with --retry multiple times if necessary. This is to avoid using --max-tries 0 which could cause ligen_dl to run indefinitely.

Alternatives

• libgen-cli
• libgen-downloader
• Many (mostly python?) others on gh.

Derivation

Be sure to set the latest rev and sha256.

{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkg-config, aria2}:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "libgen_dl";
  version = "1.0.0";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "cortsf";
    repo = "libgen_dl";
    rev = "<rev>";
    sha256 = "<sha256>";
  };

  strictDeps = true;
  nativeBuildInputs = [  ];
  buildInputs = [  ];

  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out/bin
    cp libgen_dl.sh $out/bin
    chmod 755 $out/bin/libgen_dl.sh
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    homepage = "https://github.com/cortsf/libgen_dl";
    description = "Batch download files from libgen";
    mainProgram = "libgen_dl.sh";
    license = licenses.unlicense;
    platforms = platforms.unix;
    maintainers = with maintainers; [ cortsf ];
  };
}