Looking for a perfect IDM Alternative for Windows? EagleGet Downloader Might be just for you

Well everyone knows that Internet Download Manager (IDM) is an awesome download manager tool. It breaks the files into several chunks of data (File Segmentation) and downloads them into several pieces (Multipart Downloading) to accelerate the downloads.Unlike other download managers and accelerators, Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuse available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.

It supports browser integrations, proxy servers, video and audio codecs, FTP server downloads.Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, HTML help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others.

They also have amazing support center, but you have to buy the software for about ~12 $ for a year's license. So. for the folks who don't want to pay for their service, there's an alternative to it which is free and has almost same features of IDM. EagleGet Download Manager !!!

EagleGet is an awesome tool that I personally use to download my files. It has much simpler and direct UI unlike IDM, is stable and supports fast downloading. It doesn't support file segmentation and multipart downloading like IDM does but it has download acceleration and fast downloading.

Its features:  

EagleGet has an attractive and modern interface, easy to use and is fully configurable and comes with extra tools such as Media Grabber and speed limiter and the best thing is that it's all for free !! Its tried, tested and recommended by almost all software sites and professionals. 

Few Screenshots: 

Download EagleGet for free (direct link): here

For portable version click here

Visit the website and please do check out the awesome download manager.

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Secret: How to download large files from Google Drive the right way

  

Google Drive is an awesome tool for saving files online. It offers 15 GB storage for a standard free account. If you want more space, then upgrade to their premium plans which are cheaper and are at reasonable prices.

You can easily download files of less size...about 2GB from google drive using the Google Drive's desktop app and direct download, but beyond that, it will struggle to download files. I tried to download all my pics from my backup which were about 2.5 GB, compressed them and they were failing each and every time while downloading.

In this article, I'll share a few tricks on how to download large size files from Google Drive without any issues. You can also download files with the help of download managers with this simple trick.

# Method 1:

If you're like me who thinks that Command line interface is cool and awesome, follow this method. It's a pretty easy method and anyone can follow it.

The below method is for downloading all types of files whether they are privately owned or shared. We authenticate the file from drive to grant access to our IP and maintain the connection and ensure that the download speeds remain constant.

Here are step-by-step instructions to download a file from Google Drive using the command line API if the file is shared privately and needs authentication.

Get the file ID:

        1. Go to your Google Drive in your browser.

        2. Right-click (or control-click) the file you want to download and click “Get shareable link”. The link looks like this: https://drive.google.com/open?id=XXXXX. Make note of the file ID “XXXXX”; you will be needing it below.

Get an OAuth token:

        1. Go to OAuth 2.0 Playground.

        2. In the “Select the Scope” box, scroll down, expand “Drive API v3”, and select "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"

        3. Click “Authorize APIs” and then “Exchange authorization code for tokens”. Copy the “Access token”; you will be needing it below.

Download the file from the command line:

If using OS X or Linux, open the “Terminal” program and enter the following command. It also works on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 64-bit if you've enabled in your settings.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YYYYY" https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/XXXXX?alt=media -o ZZZZZ

If using Windows, open the “PowerShell” program and enter the following command. (Note: I haven’t tested this)

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/XXXXX?alt=media -Method Get -Headers @{"Authorization"="Bearer YYYYY"} | Out-File ZZZZZ

In your command, replace “XXXXX” with the file ID from above, “YYYYY” with the access token from above, and “ZZZZZ” with the file name that will be saved (for example, “myFile.mp4” if you’re downloading a mp4 file).

Press Enter and let the download begin.

# Method 2:

Method 2 is damn easy. Follow the steps below:

1. Open a browser window and copy the link of the file that you want to download.

2. Now open an Incognito window or any other browser but make sure that you are not signed in into your google account in that tab or browser.

3. Hit download. The browser starts to download the file, but if you want to use a download manager then, cancel it and paste it any download manager URL list that you prefer to.

4. That's it. :D  

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