catalyst-proxy
A proxy that silently accelerates requests via multipart downloading. Officially the best thing ever.
catalyst-proxy
establishes multiples connections to download a single resource from a web server, potentially increasing the download speed.
Only supports "streaming" acceleration for now: resources are cut into parts of equal length (--partSize
CLI option) that are downloaded concurrently (--threads
CLI option) and served sequentially. This behavior differs from most download managers and allows to consume the resource while downloading it.
Use-cases
- Speed up video streaming websites, such as YouTube.
- Speed up software and game downloaders/installers.
- Speed up everything.
Installation
You need to have Node.JS >= 0.10.0 installed on your system.
$ npm install -g catalyst-proxy
To update:
$ npm update -g catalyst-proxy
Usage
$ catalyst start
to boot up the proxy. Simply add the printed address and port as an HTTP proxy in your system settings and you're set.
$ catalyst start -h
to list all available options.
Configuration
--partSize
, --threads
and --contentLength
are the three CLI options you should be tweaking.
-
partSize
specifies the size of each thread part. For example, if set to1048576
, it will cut the resource into parts of1 megabyte = 1048576 bytes
each. For video streaming, you should try to set this as low as is reasonable. -
threads
specifies the maximum amount of concurrent threads. For example, if set to12
, it will launch as many as12
concurrent threads, each downloading a resource part of sizepartSize
. Note that download speed will be balanced between threads. -
contentLength
specifies the minimum size of a resource forcatalyst
to try to download it using threaded downloading.