KGet is a free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 download manager

Download manager

A download manager is a computer program dedicated to the task of downloading possibly unrelated stand-alone files from the Internet for storage...

 for KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

. By default it is the download manager used for Konqueror

Konqueror

Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...

, but can also be used with Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...

. KGet is part of the KDE Network package, and was featured by Tux Magazine

Tux Magazine

Tux Magazine was a Linux magazine aimed at Linux desktop end users, specifically those who use the KDE desktop environment. Tux's mission was to help Linux take over the desktop market....

 and Free Software Magazine

Free Software Magazine

Free Software Magazine is a website which produces a mostly free-content e-zine about free software....

.

History

On KDE 3

KDE 3

K Desktop Environment 3 was the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment . There were six major releases in this series.-K Desktop Environment 3.0:...

, KGet 0.8.x, 1 supported HTTP/FTP download
On KDE Software Compilation 4, KGet 2 was released; supporting bandwidth throttling segmentation, multi-threading and bittorent support

Features

• Downloading files from FTP, HTTP(S) and BitTorrent sources.
• Pausing and resuming of downloading files, as well as the ability to restart a download.
• Tells lots of information about current and pending downloads.
• Embedding into system tray.
• Integration with the Konqueror
  Konqueror
  Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...
  
   web browser
  Web browser
  A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
  
  .
• Metalink
  Metalink
  Metalink is a cross-platform and cross-application Internet standard/framework/file format for programs that download, including download managers, BitTorrent clients, Web browsers, FTP clients, and P2P programs...
  
   support which contain multiple URLs for downloads, along with checksums and other information.
• Automatically tags downloaded files with download information (such as the download URL) using Nepomuk
  NEPOMUK (framework)
  NEPOMUK is an open-source software specification that is concerned with the development of a social semantic desktop that enriches and interconnects data from different desktop applications using semantic metadata stored as RDF...
  
  

See also

• GNU wget
  Wget
  GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get...
  
  
• KTorrent
  KTorrent
  KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear.- Features :*Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling...
  
  
• Comparison of download managers
  Comparison of download managers
  List of notable download managers. A download manager is a computer program dedicated to the task of downloading possibly unrelated stand-alone files from the Internet for storage.- General information :...