The tool downloads large files over a locally installed Tor client by aggressively discovering a pool of fast circuits and using them in parallel. With slow servers, this strategy bypasses per-IP traffic shaping, resulting in much faster downloads.
Onion services are fully supported.
$ git clone https://github.com/mtrojnar/torget.git
[...]
$ cd torget
$ go build torget.go
$ ./torget -h
torget 2.0, a fast large file downloader over locally installed Tor
Copyright © 2021-2023 Michał Trojnara <[email protected]>
Licensed under GNU/GPL version 3
Usage: torget [FLAGS] URL
-circuits int
concurrent circuits (default 20)
-min-lifetime int
minimum circuit lifetime (seconds) (default 10)
-verbose
diagnostic details
$ ./torget https://download.tails.net/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.16.1/tails-amd64-5.16.1.img
Output file: tails-amd64-5.16.1.img
Download length: 1326448640 bytes
Download complete