Sunday, April 20, 2008

From text list to download queue






I've done some programming. Mainly to make it easier to use ReGet Deluxe as download manager. The tool is called TXT2WJR because it converts a text file (txt) into a .wjr (ReGet Deluxe Queue) file.

Now, that may sound like kiddie stuff, and it almost is. Except that with the tool you can come from a plain text file looking like this:


hxxp://your_user:your_pass@members.bangbros.com/membercheck?path=ms4276/streaming&fname=ms4276500k.wmv
hxxp://your_user:your_pass@members.bangbros.com/membercheck?path=ms4242/streaming&fname=ms4242500k.wmv
hxxp://your_user:your_pass@members.bangbros.com/membercheck?path=ms4159/streaming&fname=ms4159500k.wmv
hxxp://your_user:your_pass@members.bangbros.com/membercheck?path=ms4121/streaming&fname=ms4121500k.wmv

To a ReGet download queue where the the following is taken care of (on all entries):

  • The download folder for the files is the folder where you ran TXT2WJR.
  • You can custom set the filename from the URL if needed.
  • You can custom set a referer to every download file if needed.
  • You can custom set a cookie to the download queue entries if needed.
Another nice things is that it is fairly easy to produce a plain text file holding download links by using GREP and some regex, possibly a column capable editor and maybe a few SED commands. All pending on how you work.

I might enhance the tool slightly by adding capability to custom set every single download path for every file in the queue. Possible also a migration from commandline console into Windows GUI drag'n'drop (but do not bet on that though).

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