DownloadGator

A Web App to Start a file download remotely on the server. Server is hosted using ngrok and connecting it to a Telegram Bot can notify about server activities

Uses

1. Could be used by college students who have limited internet access in their colleges to remotely put stuff to download on a server hosted at home(tv shows and stuff).
2. Put stuff to download on home servers on the go.

How to Start ?

Dependencies:

1. Flask
2. Wget (built-in in linux, need to install on windows)
3. Python 3

The server is started hosted ngrok. When the server starts, a message with the url is sent to the Telegram bot @downloadgator_bot (Download Telegram from Google Playstore)

Add your telegram user id in the main.py file on line 65, else it won't work. You can get your id from the @get_id_bot in Telegram

1. Read more about setting up ngork on ngrok
2. Make the start_server.sh file executable and run with ./start_server.sh or
3. Run sh start_server.sh

To clear the Downloads/ folder and reset the Downloads/downloads.json file, run the reset_downloads.sh file on the server by either

1. sh reset_downloads.sh or
2. ./reset_downloads.sh (make it executable before running)

Features to be Added:

• Cancel a particular Download
• Alert whether Download was started or not
• Show the available download speed of the server

Screenshots

Telegram Bot