downloader

Description

Applies IMT Hash to the data of a downloaded file. Writes the result in a file (hexData.txt) as a hex string in the provided path. Throttling is applied if specified.

Requirements

Go 1.16

Documentation

The following examples uses a url containing a file with a long string of characters. Change the url as required:

Check the available CLI options:

make usage

returns:

Usage:
  downloader hash [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help          help for hash
  -p, --path string   The path where the processed data will be written
  -t, --throttling    If throttling will be applied to the download (10 bytes per second)
  -u, --url string    The URL from which the file will be downloaded

Do a quick run:

make run

Do a quick run with throttling:

make throt

Check the written data:

make check

Do a quick run using Docker:

make docker-build

Or run it directly with the main.go file:

go run main.go hash --url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ebarrera89/files/main/numbers" --path "/tmp"