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Project Summary

Axel is a command line download accelerator for linux.
Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

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C
85%
Autoconf
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shell script
6%
3 Other
4%

30 Day Summary

Aug 19 2026 — Sep 18 2026

12 Month Summary

Sep 18 2025 — Sep 18 2026
  • 34 Commits
    Up + 33 (3300%) from previous 12 months
  • 5 Contributors
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