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Does anyone know how does the command line for FDM.exe works?
For example: if I try running "fdm URL" in the command line it will open up FDM and try to download the file in the URL
and I also noticed if I use a "-" what's after it is ignored (the parameters are parsed after the "-" unlike normal windows "/")
So I tried the following
fdm -h
fdm --help
fdm -?
help fdm
None of which gave me the documentation for what options I have when running fdm.exe from the command line

Anyway, I want to specify multiple URLs to be downloaded in a folder with a given name in a given location is that possible using the command line?

DigitalPhoenixX wrote:Anyway, I want to specify multiple URLs to be downloaded in a folder with a given name in a given location is that possible using the command line?

If it was even available, it would be unpractical.

* Max URL length isn't specified in HTTP standard, but web browsers use limit about 2048 characters.

* On computers running Microsoft Windows XP or later, the maximum length of the string that you can use at the command prompt is 8191 characters. Long local path can be up to 1024 characters.

So in the worst case you could pass only two URLs and local paths in command line.

If you want to implement such a feature, you should keep download parameters in some XML-like file, similar to metalink.

You can also learn how it's done in wget, well known command line downloader.

DigitalPhoenixX wrote:Does anyone know how does the command line for FDM.exe works?

Hello,
Currently, FDM6 does not support much arguments.
--url URL - add a download with the specified url
--hidden - start hidden
--minimized - start minimized
Are there any features you would like FDM to support via the command line?

Alex wrote:

DigitalPhoenixX wrote:Does anyone know how does the command line for FDM.exe works?

Hello,
Currently, FDM6 does not support much arguments.
--url URL - add a download with the specified url
--hidden - start hidden
--minimized - start minimized
Are there any features you would like FDM to support via the command line?

Hopefully it can let me decide which folder to save the file,
and let me decide the filename,
and whether to use proxy. At least, it can follow IE proxy settings.

Hi there guys!

I would love to simply be able to handle a download via command line, is that a possibility? if so please link me to an example!

Love the software ♥

hiroku wrote:Hi there guys!

I would love to simply be able to handle a download via command line, is that a possibility? if so please link me to an example!

Love the software ♥

Hello,
Please be more specific.