megarc(5)

NAME
megarc - Configuration file for megatools

SYNOPSIS
    ~/.megarc
    ./.megarc

DESCRIPTION
Megatools use INI configuration file to store commonly used login credentials. This makes it less bothersome to use the tools, as you can simply write

\FC$ megatools df\F[]

instead of

\FC$ megatools df --username my@email.com --password mypass\F[]

when using the tools.

Configuration file is read either from the current directory or user’s home directory. Exceptions are when \FC--ignore-config-file\F[] was passed to the tool, or when explicit path to the config file was given via \FC--config <path>\F[].

CONFIG FILE SECTIONS
All sections are optional. All names are case sensitive, thus you must write [Login], and not [login], and so on.

  LOGIN SECTION

Username
    Your username.

Password
    Your password. Be aware that back slashes have special meaning. If you have back slash in your password, you must escape it with another backslash. For example: my\nice\password would be written as my\\nice\\password in the config file.

  CACHE SECTION

Timeout
    Cache timeout in seconds (default is 10 minutes).

  NETWORK SECTION

DownloadSpeedLimit
    Set maximum allowed download speed in KiB/s. 0 means no limit. Overrides SpeedLimit setting.

UploadSpeedLimit
    Set maximum allowed upload speed in KiB/s. 0 means no limit. Overrides SpeedLimit setting. When using ParallelTransfers > 1, upload speed limit is applied to each transfer individually.

SpeedLimit
    Set maximum allowed upload and download speed in KiB/s. 0 means no limit.

ParallelTransfers
    Set maximum allowed number of parallel connections when upload or downloading a file. The file is split into chunks of a size between 128 kiB and 1 MiB, and these chunks are uploaded in parallel. The number must be between 1 and 16. Default is 5.

Proxy
    Use proxy server to connect to mega.nz. More information can be found in libcurl documentation at ⟨https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html⟩. Some acceptable values are:

    •   \FCsocks5://localhost:9050\F[] : Local SOCKSv5 proxy server

    •   \FCsocks5h://localhost:9050\F[] : Local SOCKSv5 proxy server with DNS handled by the proxy

  UPLOAD SECTION

CreatePreviews
    Create Previews (see --enable-previews option).

  UI SECTION

Colors
    Enable color output in the progress reporting. Colors are disabled by default to support all kinds of terminal configurations. Colors are not configurable, yet.

EXAMPLE
Create ~/.megarc (on linux) or mega.ini file containing these 3 lines:

\FC[Login]
Username = your@email
Password = yourpassword
[Network]
# 1MiB/s
SpeedLimit = 1024
# Use over TOR
Proxy = socks5://127.0.0.1:9050
ParallelTransfers = 2
[UI]
Colors = true\F[]

Run megatools-df(1) to check that megatools are able to login to your account.

SEE ALSO
megatools(1), megarc(5), megatools-df(1), megatools-dl(1), megatools-get(1), megatools-ls(1), megatools-mkdir(1), megatools-put(1), megatools-reg(1), megatools-rm(1), megatools-copy(1).

MEGATOOLS
Part of the megatools(1) suite of commands.

BUGS
There is no upstream support for bugreports and feature requests. But you can send code patches to to get them integrated into upstream repository.

AUTHOR
Megatools was written by Ondrej Jirman < >, 2013-2022.

Official website is ⟨https://xff.cz/megatools/⟩.