@worldsendless idk if any of the old download managers are still around. kde used to have one, there were some for firefox, or jdownloader, some of those you can also import a list of files and they may do a more appealing job of not overwriting files and the like.

@icedquinn @worldsendless jdownloader2 is still very much a thing and sounds perfect for this if want a GUI solution. Simple wget or aria2 probably easier if the list is "direct links" rather than fileservers that require you to click download (jdownloader2 can automate those).

@icedquinn@blob.cat @worldsendless@qoto.org aria2 i think is the current state of the art. i've been meaning to set it up because it's the sort of thing you can throw urls at and come back to a folder full of shit ^_^

@purple @worldsendless i have it. it gets used as the backend downloader by a lot of utilities. but i've never tried to manage big transfers with it directly.

@icedquinn I was unaware of parallel. I installed it, blinked, and the process was done!

@worldsendless it reads text files and passes the parameters one per line to whatever you point it at. there's a ton of options.

though as @purple points out aria2c is probably better, esp since blurting the urls with parallel won't honor any kind of download policies or anything