Download mega files as zip

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How exactly does MEGA's download work? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago.

Active 8 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Jeff Jeff 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alex Dodswm Dodswm 7 7 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Ah interesting. So the graphical download creates the file in the directory mentioned in your answer. Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most.

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Essentially in the browser you can select download as zip from the menu, but I don't have enough storage space on my laptop, so I'd like to do it on AWS.

If anyone has a working command line script or knows how I might build something of the form for the command line. If there is a way in the browser tried but couldn't find to just find a static link by which I could then paste into a simple urllib2 script in Python, that would even be the best, but I couldn't find such a link in the source of the mega.

You are not using a simple file server, but a web application that offers to download files as ZIP. If it is zipping "on fly" server side, the static link you want may not exist at all. When facing such a problem, the only foolproof way is it is a python based way as you question is tagged as python :.

Ok it is not a very precise answer, but it should give you enough hints and the path to go. Feel then free to ask more detailed questions here if you get stuck anywhere in the procedure : just give the python code you have written and explain what you do not know how to do.

You should get more precise answers. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Active 2 years, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. The first one worked! Thank you! I added the extension and sure enough the entire file is there.

Not sure why it needs to copy it? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alex Alex Any source for this? This is the correct location for Windows.