Free automatically download software for linux

Strato Log Download is a small Perl script intended to download logfiles from Web accounts from Strato hosted sites.
The problem is that the normal download interface is interactive, and that only about six weeks are kept on the server. So without scripting, youre likely to lose valuable log information (at least I was unable and unwilling to remember to download the logfiles once every six weeks).
This script logs in via the SSL-encrypted web-interface and downloads the files without needing a web-browser (proxies are configurable via the https_proxy environment variable).
Note: For SSL support, you might need additional Perl modules since some distros dont include crypto stuff: either use IO::Socket::SSL or Net::SSL (in Crypt::SSLeay).
If an SSL module is missing, https access will not work.
Usage is very easy:
$ get-logfiles -p mypassword www.mysite.de > logfile.gz
Enhancements:
- Feature: a new logfile download protocol was necessary, because the web interface changed (thanks to J. Puchalla for telling me -- it would probably have gone unnoticed otherwise).

Fast Video Download enables you to save embedded video files from various video-hosting servers.
Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:
Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Bubblare.dk, CollegeHumor.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, Danerd.com, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, HI5 (VideoEgg), My Space, MetaCafe, News.NTV.ru, PornoTube, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac.
Main features:
- Just in ONE click on the status-bar or custom toolbar icon, FVD immediately open the regular "Save As" dialog with already placed video title and extension.
- FVD supports additional video formats at Video, Break.com, Blip.TV. You can choose desired format via Preferences.
- FVD is able to pick any multimedia links from embeded objects on ordinary pages
- If theres only single link, standard dialog open immediately. Otherwise, links are listed in pop-up window.
- Processing of embedded YouTube video objects: Special download link will appear under every embedded YouTube Flash-Player posted on common pages such as blogs and web-boards.
- At last, FVD supports DownThemAll and FlashGot: You can turn on interaction with your desired download manager in preferences.

PDF Download is an extension which allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file on a website.

Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!

Retriever Download Manager program was written completely in the Java programming language and will run on any operating system with a Java Virtual Machine installed (JVM 1.4 or higher).
Retriever allows you to download files from the internet easier and with more control than from your web browser, with it you can resume interrupted downloads at any time thats convenient or even schedule downloads to occur when youre away from your computer. Even if one server is too busy to accomodate you Retriever will automatically switch to another to continue your download.
You can even temporarily pause your download and resume it instantly a few minutes later.
No matter how many times your download is interrupted or stopped Retriever gives you a successful download.
Retriever is highly reliable and customizable.
Downloads can be input manually into the program or captured from the clipboard.
You can also drag and drop links onto the download list to capture them. If a selection of text is dropped, it will be parsed for links, you can use this behaviour to add multiple files at once.
Main features:
- Resumable FTP and HTTP downloads.
- Support for BitTorrent transfers (starting with version 0.905).
- FTP and HTTP server authentication.
- supports HTTP, FTP and SOCKS proxies with authentication.
- Ability to add file download mirrors.
- Scheduled downloading.
- Pausable downloading.
- Execute external application on download start and/or completion.
- User customizable icons. See the file "Icon-Set.txt"in the icons/default.zip archive for details.
Enhancements:
- Removed "resume" button, paused downloads are now resumed with the "start download" button.
- Referer information can now be edited or input manually.
- Fixed problem with FTP servers that did not use the default port.
- Fixed issue where status information would be incorrect.

AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to RedHats up2date or autorpm. AutoUpdate project can be used to automatically download and upgrade rpms from different (s)ftp or http(s) sites.
Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (RedHat) distribution plus all clients up to date. I have tried to write it in such a way that it is not RedHat specific and hence it should work with any other rpm based distribution as well.
Main features:
- In contradistinction to up2date, it can be used to upgrade both rpms from RedHat and third party rpms. In addition, only the server will download new rpms, the clients get them from the server (saves bandwidth).
- It will try to handle dependencies (see below) and choose the right architecture (if more than one is available).
- Version comparison for remote rpms is only done by looking at the file name and not by looking at the entire rpm header unless a special repository has been set up.
- It is designed to run from a cron job and to keep the output to a minimum (so that your root email is not cluttered up with useless information). In particular, there is no interactive mode or any kind of GUI.
How does it work and what can it do?
There are five independent modes, download, get, update/install, merge, and purge. The mode will be determined by the invocation name and or command line options.
Download mode (autodld):
The download mode will connect to a given remote site (currently file, ftp, http, https and sftp are supported) and compare all rpms found to either your rpm directory or, if no rpm directory is set, to the installed rpms. Then all updated versions of rpms you already have will be downloaded. The remote site can be given on the command line or in a configuration file.
Get mode (autoget):
The get mode is similar to the download mode, except that rpm names (without version) can be given on the command line and those rpms will then be searched for on the remote sites.
Update/install mode (autoupd/autoins):
The update/install mode will compare rpms given on the command line or in the update directory to the installed ones. In update mode only new rpms for which an older version is installed will be upgraded. Install mode is similar but will also install rpms for which no old version was previously installed.
First all rpms (except kernel packages) will be upgraded. If there are unresolved dependencies, it will check if any other rpms in the update or rpm directory can be used to satisfy them and add all necessary ones.
Then it will install new kernel rpms (unless disabled) and, at your request, add the images to the boot manager.
You can think of autoupd as a smarter version of rpm -F and autoins as a smarter version of rpm -i respectivley rpm -U.
Merge mode (automrg):
This mode is used to merge new rpms from the update directory into the rpm directory (removing the old ones).
Purge mode (autoprg):
This mode is used to purge old rpms from the update directory.

Download Machine provides a noninteractive, nongraphical, pure Java batch file downloader.
Download Machine is pure Java daemon that watches queue files for changes. If a new entry is available, DM will download it. Queue files are just URL lists. DM fully supports the HTTP, FSP, and FTP protocols.
Main features:
- Design goals
- Non graphical
- Non interactive
- Relieable downloads
- Queued downloads
- Portability (uses Java)
- Simple to use
- Resume interrupted downloads
- Transports
- Support for HTTP/1.1 protocol
- Support for HTTP/1.0 protocol
- Support for FTP protocol
- Support for FSP protocol
- Custom headers
- Fake user-agent header
- Custom referer header, configurable per URL
- Custom cookie header, configurable per URL
- Other features
- Can check in different directories if we already have downloaded file (configurable by wildcard)
- Can move downloaded file to special directory (configurable by wildcard)

Download Embedded extension downloads all or selected embedded objects on a webpage. Can be used for downloading movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, or other embedded files.

When the Download Embedded plugin detects an embedded object, a small red arrow will appear on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window. Just click that and either download them all or pick which ones you want to download. Enjoy!

If you were using the old download embedded (0.1), -=please=- remove it before installing this one.