Well, its propably already clear what it does if you read the name of the program, but yeah, this console program can download every episode available from an anime that you specify, as long its available on the bot. It is able to resume if you stop midway to, i mean its able to resume per episode, so if you stopped while it was downloading one, it will not start downloading that episode again, it will continue to the next episode, I will explain down below what to do about it. It is also able to stop and start the irc client when a file is finishd downloading, which I am actually proud of :).
Ehm, the reason I created this is because I am lazy, I do not want to manually download every episode by hand, especially on my phone its a pain in the ass, it takes a hole freaking 5 minutes to start downloading an episode using TurboIRC as client, they do not name the files, so its hard to tell which I downloaded :(, so I came up with this. There are propably more of these kind of xdcc/dcc downloaders but I wanted to create my own. I just love XDCC for its speed and that you can play the file immediatly after starting the download.
THIS IS LINUX ONLY FOR NOW!!! Yep, I made this mainly for the raspberry pi. So, before this works you will have to set things up correctly:
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sudo apt-get install mono-complete.
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sudo apt-get install irssi.
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run irssi by typing in terminal: irssi.
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close it by typing /quit.
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open /home/(user) and make sure that you can see hidden folders. (Use WinSCP if you want to control your pi remotely)
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locate .irssi folder and open it.
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put XDCCBatchDownloader.exe, config, logfile.txt and settings.ini in it.
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change nickname etc in config file to your liking, do not use the one provided with it, since it might be in use.
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open settings.ini and change the search option into the name of the anime you want, including release/subgroup!
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- change bot option to the bot you would like to download from, you can get a list from intel.haruhichan.com
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- change channel option into the channel where you can access that bot, that is very important otherwise it wont work!
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- only change resolution if the sub/releasegroup specifys it in his file name(like [horriblessubs] blabla [720p].mkv), leave it blank when they do not specify it!
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- additional option to specify from which episode you want to start downloading, for example, i only want to dl episodes starting from episode 10, and then you put in 10, thats it :)
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start XDCCBatchDownloader.exe by typing cd /home/(user)/.irssi, or if you are already in home: cd .irssi and then (sudo) mono XDCCBatchDownloader.exe
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now it works, your files will be dlld to you home/(user) folder, option to change this will be added in the future
YOUR DONE!
Multiple anime support
Windows functionality
Change Download Location
It retrieves the html code from intel.haruhichan.com/?s="search", retrieves all episodes from the anime+subgroup from the bot you specified, puts them in the right order(they are normally scrambled), together with the retrieved episodes there are packnumbers, * per episode it will change the config file of irssi to include an autolaunch command like /join [channelname];/msg [botname] xdcc send #[packnum], and when the config is changed, it will launch the irc client (irssi), while irssi is downloading the file, a loop is checking if the file that irssi is downloading changes filesizes every 10 seconds, if not, I assumed the file would be finishd downloading, when that happens it will close the irc client and continue to the next episode, repeating everything starting from *. If somehow the file is not retrieved the program will stop. The problem is most likely you were banned from the irc channel or something like that.
(I do not have any FAQ since noone uses it now, but their are some things you might crash into)
- I stopped/The program crashed/stopped in the middle of downloading an episode, how can I still get that episode?
Go to your .irssi folder and locate logfile.txt, open it and delete the last line, then start XDCCBatchDownloader again. It should redownload that episode.
- The program tells me that it could not open settings.ini, logfile.txt or config, what should I do?
First make sure you took every file from the folder (necessary files) on this github page and put them in the same folder where XDCCBatchDownloader is. That should propably be .irssi .
- My programmed stopped responding, CTRL-C does not exit the program.
That happens most likely because it finishd downloading or that something went wrong with the irc client, anyway the only thing that you could propably do is restart the terminal/ssh session, if you are directly on the rpi, you propably should restart the RPi, but I didnt test it out, so it might not crash directly on the RPi. I know that this shouldnt happen, but I do not really know why it does that, yet.
- Where is the executable file?
I will put in the folder (necessary files) here on github, but you can also find it in bin/debug
- I have a suggestion/ idea, where can I tell you?
I will make a forum topic on haruhichan.com, there you can give me suggestions or anything else related to my program. The link is: http://haruhichan.com/forum/showthread.php?43149-XDCCBatchDownloader-(Linux-only-for-now-RPi-compitable)
A popcorn time ish anime watcher / downloader. And it will be more reliable since it does not need the use of torrents, xdcc are generaly faster then torrents, and nomatter how old the file on the server is, it will have equal speeds to new one(but it has to be on the server). No more waiting until it is seeded, it will be press and play :). Now, this might never become true, since that requires a shit ton of work and I am on my own, with an programming language wich i just started at, and my study just starting, which requires a lot of time. So for now it will be a simple automated downloader :)
I wont be doing version numbers, since I am lazy and I just update things occasionally, so all new things will be put here and I wont store older versions here, if something is not working, just go to the forum where you can tell me so.
2-11-14: I was annoyed since I started watching an anime a few weeks ago, stopped and wanted to resume watching, and liked to use this program for dlling all the available eps, so:
You are now able to specify from which episode you want to start downloading from!
I DO NOT OWN IRSSI NOR DO I OWN ANYTHING HERE BESIDES ALL THE SCRIPTS / PROGRAMS POSTED HERE!!! If you want to change the code, go ahead, its free for all, I just would like some credit if you think of changing/using the code for your own good :), not in money, but just like a comment in your code like: // this is created by rareamv. BUt I leave that up to you, you can do with it whatever you want.