FatRat

FatRat is a free and open-source extensible download manager for Linux. It is built on top of the Trolltech Qt 4 library in C++. Developing of this program was started in November 2006. FatRat provides few advanced features such as speed limiting, segmented downloads.[1]

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Developer(s)Czech: Luboš Doležel
Operating systemUnix like, Linux
Available inEnglish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish
Typedownload and upload manager
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitehttp://fatrat.dolezel.info/

It supports a lot of download and file exchange protocols,[2] such as HTTP, Proxy/SOCKS5, FTP, BitTorrent (through libtorrent[3]). Internationalization of interface is carried out with the help of Qt Linguist.[4] FatRat also has RSS feed and podcasts support,[5][6] and it can work with RapidShare web-storage service[7] and with Dropbox and OpenSubtitles.[8][9]

Available as a package of the most popular Linux repositories, such as Debian,[2] Ubuntu,[10] Fedora.[11]

Main features

Features and characteristics:[11][12]

  • HTTP(S)/FTP downloads
  • FTP uploads
  • BitTorrent support
  • Torrent search
  • Support for SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies
  • RapidShare.com FREE downloads
  • RapidShare.com uploads
  • RapidShare.com link verification and folder extraction
  • RapidSafe link decoding
  • Subtitle search
  • Scheduler
  • Remote control via Jabber
  • Remote control via a web interface
  • RSS feed and podcasts support

References

  1. FatRat Download Manager Extensions. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Debian -- Error. packages.debian.org.
  3. Официальный сайт libtorrent (in en). Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  4. Официальный сайт программы FatRat (in en). Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  5. FatRat Is An Amazing Linux Download Manager [Ubuntu PPA Included].
  6. Роман Комков. Журнал «Системный администратор» №37 (in ru) (2009). p. 8, 11. Retrieved 2011-11-16.[dead link]
  7. Игорь Осколков. 3D News. Создаем SOHO-сервер на базе Zentyal (in ru) (2011)Электронное СМИ "3ДНьюс". Свидетельство о регистрации средства массовой информации Эл № ФС 77-22224 от 01 ноября 2005 г.. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  8. Petr Šafařík. Linux Expres (in cs). Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  9. Petr Šafařík. FatRat – Univerzální stahovač z Česka (in cs). Оpen magazin, №3 (2010). Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  10. Ubuntu – Error. packages.ubuntu.com.
  11. 11.0 11.1 RPM Fedora 15 fatrat 1.1.3 x86_64 rpm. rpm.pbone.net.
  12. Home – FatRat Download Manager. fatrat.dolezel.info. Retrieved 2011-11-16.