{"id":10,"date":"2005-02-13T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-24T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T20:43:39","slug":"bashpodder-and-bittorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Bashpodder and BitTorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bashpodder<\/a>, in case you are not already familiar with it, is a command line tool for downloading podcasts<\/a>.
\nI like it because it's unintrusive and can be run from a cron job.
\nWhich means when I get home in the evening I can just check today's
\ndownload directory and see what cool stuff I have to listen to. <\/p>\n


I did some cleaning of the scrip on saturday afternoon to make it deal
\nwith disconnection in a more sane manner, and also to take advantage of
\nwget's ability to recomence a download that has already started. This
\nmeans that bashpodder should be a bit less of bandwidth whore in the
\nfuture.<\/p>\n

I subscribed to the RSS feed of evilgeniuschronicles<\/a>.
\nAll was well until I looked in my download directory to see lots of
\n*.mp3.torrent files. Bummer.  Drunk on success I thought "I shall
\nnow go forth and add bittorrent support to bashpodder". BitTorrent is
\nwriiten in python so I thought there was probably a good chance to get
\nwhere I wanted to go since I already know python. There is even a
\ncommand-line script called btdownloadheadles.py. However like most
\nbittorrent clients this stays open until it's explicitly killed. This
\nwasn't the behaviour I was looking for but I figured it wouldn't take
\ntoo much tweaking to get it to exit on success or failure. Six hours
\nlater at four in the morning I finally gave up and went to bed.
\nThrowing sys.exit(0) anywhere in the code just disn't seem to work.<\/p>\n

After a good sleep it took me about ten minutes to work out what had
\nbeen outfoxing me for hours. The bittorrent code treats a sys.exit(0)
\nas an error state. So you end up in the generic error function. By
\nadding a sys.exit(1) into the error function I could finally get the
\ndamn thing to exit. I tidied it up to add some checks in the error
\nfunction so that it calls sys.exit(0) is it got there by receiving
\nsys.exit(0) else it exits with a non-zero error code.<\/p>\n

Of course now that I I've got working code the egr feed has gone down so I can't test it. It'll just have to wait till tommorow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bashpodder, in case you are not already familiar with it, is a command line tool for downloading podcasts. I like it because it's unintrusive and can be run from a cron job. Which means when I get home in the evening I can just check today's download directory and see what cool stuff I have … Continue reading Bashpodder and BitTorrent<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bashpodder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}