[LRUG] Downloading images quickly

[Tom Stuart]

On 5 Feb 2013, at 11:40, Tom Taylor wrote:
> You're probably better off using something like wget for this. Something like `wget -i list_of_files --wait 3` would do the trick.

I assume Andy wants to do this programmatically rather than shelling out, and wget doesn't download in parallel. Typhoeus uses libcurl, the downloading library that powers curl, so it's pretty much the next best thing.

Cheers,
-Tom