A long weekend is always a good time for a new release. So without further ado I give you Peapod 0.7
Notable bug-fixes include improved syncing with ipods and some clean-up of the verbose output so that it makes more sense.
For those of you who don’t know: peapod is a command-line podcast downloader written in python.
Filed by huw at 4:37 pm under Peapod, Tech
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I spent the weekend sorting out bittorrent support in Peapod so that it
wasn't quite such a mess. Previously I had hacked a version of
btdownloadheadless.py so that it would exit when the download
completed. I was then shelling out to this from within Peapod.
Obviously this is a less than ideal situation partly because it meant I had to escape URLs from the shell. So I hacked away at btdownloadheadless.py until I had a simple class I could call to do the bittorrent download. It gives almost no feedback
except a return code upon completion of the download.
from btclient import mytorrent
url = "http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent"
save_dir = /tmp
torrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir)
ret = torrent.run()
sys.exit(ret)
If you wanted to carry on seeding rather than exiting on completion you could do:
torrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir,selfish=0)
torrent.run()
I then added a name == "__main__" section into btclient so that it can be used a simple bittorrent client.
btclient.py http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent /tmp
or to seed:
btclient.py http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent /tmp seed
btclient.py can be downloaded from here or alternatively see our subversion repository where the latest version can always be found.
Hopefully someone will find this useful.
Filed by Administrator at 9:22 pm under Peapod
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A friend and I have been hacking on a replacement for bashpodder. It's
taken a while but it's now very usable. Any thoughts greatly
appreciated.
I present Peapod
Filed by Administrator at 10:33 pm under Peapod
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