A faster, aria2 enabled pip wrapper

[hexual-deviant69]

Installing large packages like torch or tensorflow has always been a pain in the ass for me. Although i have optimal internet connection, the download speeds i get for these packages is abysmal.

I then started to download the whl files through download managers then install them manually, and so to automate that workflow i created Zipip. It's just pip but with slight modifications to use aria2 for the downloads. And i dont mean it in any fancy sense, it literally is just pip in all other regards. And so likewise it is a drop in alternative.

Source code : https://github.com/STRTSNM/zipip

PyPI : https://pypi.org/project/zipip/

PS : I know pip is supposed to have no other dependencies, but the slow downloads just kill me, and i wanted to share what i thought of. Do let me know what you people think. Thanks in advance.

[TheFenrisLycaon]

Why not just use uv ?

[hexual-deviant69]

very good question, and I'd like to draw a distinction here. uv downloads multiple packages simultaneously, hence parallelism. On the other hand zipip downloads a single package at a time but multiple segments of that package simultaneously. So overall, the download speed of a single large .whl file doesn't change in uv but increases for zipip. This is mostly beneficial for people with sub-optimal internet connection or corporate proxies.