Off topic: downloading from sammobile.com from command line or terminal browsers?

[Strolls]

Hello,

I'm on an extremely unreliable cellular network right now, and my firmware downloads keep getting cut off halfway through.

I'm trying to follow the instructions on XDA-developers to root my Samsung Tab S5e and install LineageOS.

The rooting instructions say "In order to root or, at a later time, return to original factory settings; you MUST have a local copy of firmware" and advise to use Frija to download the firmware, but that keeps going to 0kb/sec about about 20% of the download.

Someone on Freenode IRC #android-root suggested that downloading from here would be ok instead, but downloading from here keeps failing too (have now tried 3 times since last night).

What I really need to do is to download the firmware to my Linode VM and then I can transfer it here easily (by breaking it onto 10MB chunks before transferring it to myself). I can use wget or a terminal browser like links, lynx, elinks or w3m - are any of the latter known to work, please?

Finding good wifi isn't really an option, sorry. I'm a hobo.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Stroller.



(I guess this thread should really be in the general forum, not tablets, but it won't let me post there.)

[Diyadzha]

I had same problem myself and after a little bit of googling i found curl tool can download from sammobile and many other sites that need authentication.
so first you need to download curl if you don't have already:
for linux:

sudo apt install curl

for mac:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

then:

brew install curl

for windows: download it from this link
then from terminal or cmd use this command:

curl -o <filename-to-save-as> -u <username>:<password> <url>

I found that solution on stackoverflow in this answer