Advanced Download Options

Options that have an effect on the download experience

backend

Both aio and httpx can handle downloads and requests. Normally aio is faster,so switching is only required if your having issues

Historically, this has mostly been the case Mac users, and even then, only a small group among them

downloadbars

whether to show download progress bars or not

Disabling these can improve performance

temp_dir

If not set the the final download directory is used to hold temp files

This overrides the temporary directory used during download