diff --git a/plugins/archlinux/archlinux.plugin.zsh b/plugins/archlinux/archlinux.plugin.zsh
index 59285c961..0020e9980 100644
--- a/plugins/archlinux/archlinux.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/archlinux/archlinux.plugin.zsh
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 ##some functions
+##gets tar from aur (depends on curl taken from falconindy https://github.com/falconindy)
+
+aget() {
+  for pkg; do
+    if curl -s --compressed "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkg/$pkg.tar.gz" | tar xz 2>/dev/null; then
+      echo ":: downloaded $pkg"
+    else
+      echo ":: $pkg not found"
+    fi
+  done
+}
+
 ## scan function that find out what libs are linking to a specific package (taken from wonder https://github.com/wonder)
 scan () {
     pacman -Qlq $1 | xargs file | grep ELF | awk -F: '{print $1}' |