VitaDL, a WIP file downloader for your Vita
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s on how utterly terrible the PS Vita browser is. It is slow, doesn’t open many websites without giving errors and is full of vulnerabilities. Another thing the browser does not do is download files. This is likely a design decision since the PS Vita does not have any kind of file transfer outside of the proprietary CMA transfers.
This is where VitaDL comes in. Brought to us by developer Voxel over at the GBATemp forums, it is a simple tool that does what the name says: it allows you to download files on your Vita. It is currently bare-bones but the developer states it is work-in-progress, so it’s expected. Future updates will include things like a progress bar and a GUI.
What is VitaDL?
VitaDL is a small program created by developer Voxel with the sole purpose of allowing you to download files from HTTP links. This is particularly useful when you want to download something straight to your Vita that you couldn’t normally view or download in the regular Web Browser app (e.g. a VPK or a ZIP).
Features
What can it do?
- As stated, downloads any type of file from a given HTTP link into a ‘Downloads’ folder on the root of your memory card.
- Quick and easy-to-use; enter a link, click, and obtain your file!
What can’t it do? (currently)
- Download from HTTPS links.
- No progress bars or GUI or anything like that yet either.
Credits
Highly-inspired by GBATemp member Kartik‘s Multidownload homebrew for the 3DS
Freakler – on-screen keyboard code; as used in vita-uriCaller.
HENkaku OfflineInstaller contributors – for file-downloading demonstration.
Download VitaDL
To start using VitaDL just go to the release thread over at GBATemp and get the download link from there. Otherwise just click here to go the the release page on Voxel‘s GitHub or get the file directly from this link. If you have bug reports to make or feature requests, do so in the release thread.
Thank you for this. Little does the local panera know but it will soon be providing me files for my vita…now we need some sort of mode to spoof mac id or something and then scrub it hahahaha
First desu
Very nice. If it could only be hooked to the browser, like GetVPK.
Still, watching with interest.
Add some basic stuff like copy/paste?
Kind of don’t want to retype everything because some or most of the time a long url and the most major problem is
The vita doesn’t even have this basic stuff in the browser lol
I did fear that some people moght say this. Pretty much use pen and paper for the time being to note down the URL and I’ll think of something. 😉
*might
Your project is cool!
This is only a WIP, but you must continue working on it!
If we create xamp server on local computer then use VitaDL to download file from it via http, does it faster than the slow *** ftp?
From the title of this article, I thought it was a downloader for WIP files. Almost passed over it thinking it was something for developers.
Yes the vita browser is a bit wonky but out of all the web browsers on handheld game consoles you have to give it points for at least being usable unlike the 3ds browser
Nine
can i run true image backup files?
“… and is full of vulnerabilities.”
How so? Isnt it based on Webkit? Unless you mean that Webkit is full of vulnerabilities.
Now, we need a torrent downloader on a vita.