Fetch files downloader

Wiki on FetchFileServer will be added in the coming days. Start using FetchFileServer by adding the gradle dependency to your application's build. Start a FetchFileServer instance and add resource files that it can serve to connected clients.

Migrate downloads from Fetch1 to Fetch2 using the migration assistant. Add the following gradle dependency to your application's build. Fetch can only get better if you make code contributions. Found a bug? Report it. Have a feature idea you'd love to see in Fetch?

Contribute to the project! Skip to content. Star 1. The best file downloader library for Android www. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. View code. Overview Fetch is a simple, powerful, customizable file download manager library for Android. Features Simple and easy to use API. Continuous downloading in the background. Concurrent downloading support. Ability to pause and resume downloads.

Set the priority of a download. Network-specific downloading support. Ability to retry failed downloads. Ability to group downloads. Easy progress and status tracking.

Download remaining time reporting ETA. Download speed reporting. Save and Retrieve download information anytime. Notification Support. David I updated the answer. Should now also work in FF. This is not mandatory in Chrome or Safari. It makes sense to call URL. AndrewSimontsev Great tip, thanks for the input! I edited the response, let me know if it is correct that way. Tested on my code and seems ok! I disagree that using a library is a better answer :.

Using external libraries is not always an option, and when it is, then finding libraries is easy. It's not answer worthy, which is likely why your answer has more votes than the accepted answer despite the accepted being 2 years older.

So the library doesn't necessarily do it a better way. Lucas Matos Lucas Matos 1, 12 12 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Yes, you can add Content-Disposition to the Headers obj, here is the documentation developer. Do you know how to pass the name to blob with your solution? This gist. LucasMatos I tried editing your answer but the queue is full. Show 5 more comments. Nice, just one thing: would it be possible to get the file name from the server response so to let the user download it with its real name?

Phate to do so, you should pass an object from server, which contains not only the data but also the name. Once you do that, you can deal with its field separately, but for that you should see other answers here as as far as I understand. Zibri Zibri 7, 2 2 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Using dowloadjs. This will parse the filename from the header.

Daniel Daniel 4 4 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. This mostly worked, but I ended up using the regex from this other answer instead. Firefox does not support filename. Besides, the server must declare the header Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Content-Disposition in order to allow the browser to read the content-disposition header.

This mostly works. Except Apple is behind times and your regex fails on Safari. Here is an example using node-fetch for anyone that finds this. Michael Hobbs Michael Hobbs 1, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Where does this save it to? Michael Hobbs — FabricioG. I tried window. Maddocks Maddocks 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

Step One: create and style a link element You can make the link invisible but still actionable. This approach is especially useful for downloading, via a stream, big-sized files that are dynamically generated on the server side.

Yuci Yuci 20k 5 5 gold badges 91 91 silver badges bronze badges. When I execute the line 'downloadLink. Any reason for that? If I comment the 'downloadLink. Any ideas? This attribute instructs browsers to download a URL instead of navigating to it, so the user will be prompted to save it as a local file. This attribute only works for same-origin URLs. A similar but cleaner and more reliable solution IMO.

On your fetch function This is a helpful solution, thanks! As written the filename value comes through twice in filename. Assuming no semicolon in the filename! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.