ariactl – a Web interface for aria2

This is a small Perl script that uses using Frontier::Client to communicate over XML-RPC with an instance of =aria2=.

It provides a webpage to add downloads to aria2, get the list of finished and waiting downloads, and change some options of aria2.

Install arialctl.pl and the two CSS / JS files in a directory managed by mod_perl. The script does no user authentication, configure your webserver to limit access. Create a text file, ariaurl.txt, in order to find the URL to use to contact aria2’s XML-RPC server.

The URL to use will look like this:

http://rpc-token@machine.example.org:6800/rpc

On machine.example.org, start aria2 with:

aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-secret=fasdhuklwer

If aria2 is on another machine, you’ll also want --rpc-listen-all. In that case, you’ll certainly want to have some access control in place to avoid having aria2 listening on the public Internet.