#176 Idea for replacement for download script

[Anonymous]

This isn't a bug or an issue, but maybe something helpful to fix the download script on the wiki page:

http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB_Download_Script

There's a python module "gdown" that can be installed with 'pip install gdown'

This will resolve link IDs and download the file.

So it becomes possible to create a downloader for the 5.5 DB files quite simply:

  src=$(curl -s http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB_Downloads)

  id=$(echo "$src" | sed '1,/5.5-compatible/d' | grep https | sed -n '2s/.*id=\([^"]*\).*/\1/p')
  if [ -n "$id" ]
  then
    echo Downloading file $id
    gdown -q --id $id
  else
    echo Failed to identify latest zip file >&2
    exit 255
  fi

I've used this to download and automatically update the DB.

% ./update_db
Downloading file 1SC0FvDa9rXAGxE0U6gag76JSW7BDEevb
Loading backup-MySQL-55-2019-09-21.zip
This may take 4 or 5 minutes
Tue Sep 24 18:40:37 EDT 2019: Start
Tue Sep 24 18:44:56 EDT 2019: End

[Ahasuerus]

Ticket moved from /p/isfdb/bugs/737/