Download manager

Lux – download library and CLI tool

Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other sites (mostly Chinese) I’ve never used. The program is written in the Go programming language.

Lux was originally named Annie.

Installation

Installing Lux is straightforward. You’ll need FFmpeg on your system, which is probably already present.

We tested Lux on Ubuntu 23.10. It’s just a single command to install the software.

$ go install github.com/iawia002/lux@latest

Installing lux

This command generates a lux binary file in ~/go/bin

The only step left is to (optionally) move the lux executable to a directory on your PATH such as /usr/local/bin:

$ sudo mv ~/go/bin/lux /usr/local/bin

Alternatively we can add ~/go/bin to our PATH.

The variable $PATH is set by your shell every time it launches, but you can set it so that it always includes your new path with every new shell you open. The exact way to do this depends on which shell you’re running.

For the bash shell we follow these steps:

  • Open the .bashrc file in our home directory (~/.bashrc) in a text editor.
  • Add export PATH=”$PATH:~/go/bin”to the last line of the file.
  • Save the .bashrc file.
  • Restart the terminal (or run the command source .bashrc).

Lux is cross-platform software. The project provides binaries for Linux (32-bit, 64-bit x86 as well as ARM), FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, and Windows.

Next page: Page 2 – In Operation and Summary

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary

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