Jfrog CLI for Artifactory: download folder archive

Question

I am using JFrog CLI ( jfrog rt download ) to download build reports from Artifactory that are published there by GitLab CI in unpacked state in order to allow unhindered html reports browsing. However it takes extremely long (10-20 minutes) because of just how many small files there are.

I see that Artifactory has REST API to download whole repository folder content in one swoop as a single archive. But I am not able to find any way to do the same using JFrog CLI.

Am I missing something or is there truly no way to download whole folder content as an archive using JFrog CLI?

PS: I am aware that there is a configuration option on Artifactory that supposedly allows to browse contents of archives, but there are reasons (organizational and technical) preventing me from using it

Answer 1

Using the CLI you can increase the "--threads" value. I have seen a massive improvement when downloading a directory with lots of small files when increasing the number of threads.