WP-Downloader Android

Make everything so simple.

This will guide you to use WP Downloader, in an Android device in localhost.

Tip

For iOS, you may try to configure iSH, the Termux equilent. Most of the configuration would be the same.

Note

Note that this documentation is absolutely NOT For Seniors. It's for noobs.

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• Get Started

  • What we will do?

    We'll use Termux, a Linux Terminal Emulator, to install NodeJS, and ru WP-Downloader.

Tip

We are going to do the same we used to do in Desktop, but not now (thanks to Electron Wrapper, in Android.

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Note

For additional information on wp-downloader source repo, visit source repo

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SECTIONS

• Install, Configure & Run for First Time
• Run (If saved pm2 config)
• Run (If didn't save pm2 config)
• Stop & Restart

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Tip

For begginers: In Termux, in order to execute commands, you need to slide the command bar in bottom (with buttons including ESC, HOME, END, PGUP, CTRL, ALT), to right, so you can get a TextInput. You'll type the command and press Enter. So the command is displayed (not yet executed) in Termux CLI. And to execute you have to press Enter button again.

🟢 Steps to Install, Configure & Run for FIRST TIME

[WARNING] When running commands in Termux terminal, you should NOT click on Termux terminal, it'll pause the process, and if you paused process, you need to resume it by pressing Enter key.

Tip

Use Copy button in the right end of the bash code block to avoid errors caused by typos.

• Install Termux

  First of all, we need to install Termux, Teminal Emulator in Android. You can download it from FDroid, or from GitHub Releases, or just install from Play Store. It's just as a normal app and so you can install it.

• Open Termux

  Make sure you have active internet connection. Open Termux, just like a normal app, it'll ask for Notification Permissions, we reccomend you allow Notifications. And then it'll install Boostrap Packages. And will automatically done.

• PKG Update

  After Boostrap Packages are installed, in the CLI, execute following command. This command checks the package repositories for any updates to the Termux package lists.

  pkg update -y

  Then wait...

• PKG UPGRADE

  After previous action completed, execute following command. This will upgrade already installed packages to the latest versions, which's recommended.

  pkg upgrade -y

Note

If you're being asked for Yes/No or etc in this terminal. Give y, and press Enter.

• Install Git

  We need to install git to clone WP-Downloader repo. So execute following comand to install git

  pkg install -y git

• Install NodeJS

  We need to have NodeJS installed to run WP-Downloader. So execute the following command to install latest NodeJS.

  pkg install -y nodejs

• Clone Repository

  Now we need to clone WP-Downloader repository with git. To do that execute following command.

  git clone https://github.com/MaximilianGT500/wp-downloader.git

  And wait till git clones the repo.

Warning

You must add .git at the end of the repository URL to clone without loggin into GitHub

• Change Directory

  Further commands are to be performed to configure and run WP-Downloader, so we need to change directory to clonned wp-downloader folder. So execute the following command.

  cd wp-downloader

  And now we are in wp-downloader directory

• Install node-modules

  WP-Downloader use some third party dependancies, so we need to install them, so execute the following command. (We're executing this command inside wp-downloader directory.

  npm install

• Install PM2

  Since we're in Android, it's beneficial to have pm2, so we can run wp-downloader in background. So execute the following command to install pm2. Note that we're installing pm2 globally with -g.

  npm install pm2 -g

• Run WP-Downloader

  Now the final step to run WP-Downloader. We can run it with pm2. So execute the following command.

  pm2 start npm --name wpdl -- run start

  And, this will deploy WP-Downloader to localhost. And the name for pm2 is wpdl in this case.

Caution

Note that there is a space between -- and run. So it's -- run.
But it is --name and is without spaces between -- and name

• Save PM2

  It's beneficial if it can restart the WP-Downloader app when Termux is restarted, or when System is restarted, by just executing pm2 start wpdl. So let's save pm2 configuration so we can manage it more easily.

  pm2 save

Note

Saving PM2 config is not essential, but is reccomended. Becaus you can run the app again with a shorter command, and no need to change directories. For ease, just execute above command and save pm2 config too.

• Use WP-Downloader

  Now that WP-Downloader is succesfully deploted to localhost, we can access it via web browser. Go to following location, by entering it to addressbar of any Browser. Be sure to use addressbar, and without any other text in addressbar other than the location bellow.

  localhost:3000
  

  The app is deployed to localhost and the port is 3000 that's why we use this location. And, now you should see WP-Downloader app loaded in your Web Browser, in the address of localhost:3000

Tip

Here's a short demonstration how to install, configure and run for first time

20241112_205641.mp4

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🟢 Run WP-Downloader - IF YOU HAVE SAVED PM2 CONFIG AFTER FIRST CONFIGURING IT

If you have installed and configured WP-Downloader as guided above, but the app is not running in localhost you need to start it with pm2 in Termux. In this section, we assume that you have saved pm2 config with THIS STEP. Or if you've saved it, you need to follow THIS SECTION

• Open Termux

  Open Termux, just like a normal app

• Run WP-Downloader

  Because you've saved pm2 config, you don't need to change dir. What we have to do is just run the app. So execute the following command. (We DON"T NEED TO BE INSIDE wp-downloader directory)

  pm2 start wpdl

  This shorter command get the saved config and run it.

• Use WP-Downloader

  Now that WP-Downloader is succesfully deploted to localhost again, we can access it via web browser. Go to following location, by entering it to addressbar of any Browser. Be sure to use addressbar, and without any other text in addressbar other than the location bellow.

  localhost:3000
  

  The app is deployed to localhost and the port is 3000 that's why we use this location. And, now you should see WP-Downloader app loaded in your Web Browser, in the address of localhost:3000

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🟢 Run WP-Downloader - IF YOU HAVE NOT SAVED PM2 CONFIG

If you have installed and configured WP-Downloader as guided above, but the app is not running in localhost you need to start it with pm2 in Termux. In this section, we assume that you've not saved pm2 config with THIS STEP. Or if you've saved it, you need to follow THIS SECTION

• Open Termux

  Open Termux, just like a normal app

• Change Directory

  We need to change directory to where we clonned. The directory name was wp-downloader. So execute the following command to change directory.

  cd wp-downloader

• Run WP-Downloader

  As we've configured ealier, what we have to do is just run the app. So execute the following command. (We ARE INSIDE wp-downloader directory)

  pm2 start npm --name wpdl -- run start 

• Use WP-Downloader

  Now that WP-Downloader is succesfully deploted to localhost again, we can access it via web browser. Go to following location, by entering it to addressbar of any Browser. Be sure to use addressbar, and without any other text in addressbar other than the location bellow.

  localhost:3000
  

  The app is deployed to localhost and the port is 3000 that's why we use this location. And, now you should see WP-Downloader app loaded in your Web Browser, in the address of localhost:3000

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🟢 Stop & Restart WP-Downloader - NOT For First Use

• Stop WP-Downloader

  You may want to stop WP-Downloader, [You can start again with just a singal command (guided above)]. In that case you can execute the following command.
  Note that we don't want to change the directory to restart or stop an app.

  pm2 stop wpdl

  Note that wpdl is the same app name that we used when running it. Note that we can use any name for it but have to use the same one. And there should not be spaces in name. If you must, you can add name in double quotations (ex: pm2 stop "wpdl server" for the name of "wpdl server"). For ease of use, just use the predefined value wpdl. You don't need to change anything. And the service will be stopped.

• Restart WP-Downloader

  In any case, if you want to restart the WP-Downloader, you can execute the following command.
  Note that we don't want to change the directory to restart or stop an app.

  pm2 restart wpdl

  Note that wpdl is the same app name that we used when running it. Note that we can use any name for it but have to use the same one. And there should not be spaces in name. If you must, you can add name in double quotations (ex: pm2 stop "wpdl server" for the name of "wpdl server"). For ease of use, just use the predefined value wpdl. You don't need to change anything. And it'll restart the app.