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Open Dir DL

The open directory downloader

Requires pip install beautifulsoup4

See inside opendirdl.py for usage instructions.

• 2016 07 29

  • Moved some nested function definitions out to the top level, and made the construction of the file tree its own function. These functions really don't need to be used on their own, but they were cluttering the logic of the tree command.
  • Renamed Tree.listnodes to Tree.list_children and the customsort now expects to operate on Node objects rather than (identifier, Node) tuples. Nodes already have their identifier so the tuple was unecessary.
  • Removed Tree.sorted_children since it was basically a duplicate of Tree.listnodes and I don't know why I had both.
  • Replaced all safeprint calls with write because it provides access to safeprint as well as file writing if needed.
  • Replaced local download_file function with a call to downloady.download_file. It supports download continuation and removes duplicate work.

• 2016 07 25

  • Removed the Downloader class after watching this Jack Diederich talk about unecessary classes.
  • Bytespersecond is now parsed by bytestring.parsebytes rather than eval, so you can write "100k" as opposed to "100 * 1024" etc.

• 2016 07 19

  • Rearranged the big blocks to be in a logical order rather than alphabetical order. Walker > Downloader > other classes
  • Renamed the keep_pattern and remove_pattern functions to keep_pattern_argparse etc to be consistent with the other functions used by the argparser. Does not affect the commandline usage!
  • Gave the HTML tree divs a very gentle shadow and alternating colors to help with depth perception.
  • Fixed some mismatched code vs comments
  • Fixed the allowed characters parameter of filepath_sanitize, which was not written correctly but worked out of luck.

• 2016 07 08

  • Fixed bug in which trees wouldn't generate on server:port urls.

• 2016 07 04

  • Added new argparse command "tree"

• 2016 02 08

  • Fixed bug where server:port urls did not create db files because of the colon. It's been replaced by a hash.
  • Moved db commits to only happen at the end of a digest.