ia-get 0.1.0

by Wimpy 11 months ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ fish 506 views

ia-get downloading Zzap! 64 Issue 01 from archive.org

https://github.com/wimpysworld/ia-get

Usage 📖

Simply pass the URL of an archive.org details page you want to download and ia-get will automatically get the XML metadata and download all files to the current working directory.

ia-get https://archive.org/details/<identifier>

Why? 🤔💭

I wanted to download high-quality scans of ZZap!64 magazine and some read-only memory from archive.org. Archives of this type often include many large files, torrents are not always provided and when they are available they do not index all the available files in the archive.

Archive.org publishes XML documents for every page that indexes every file available. So I co-authored ia-get to automate the download process.

Features ✨

🔽 Reliably download files from the Internet Archive
🌳 Preserves the original directory structure
🔄 Automatically resumes partial or failed downloads
🔏 Hash checks to confirm file integrity
🌱 Can be run multiple times to update existing downloads
📦️ Available for Linux 🐧 macOS 🍏 and Windows 🪟

A.I. Driven Development 🤖

This program is an experiment 🧪 and has been (mostly) written using AI. When I started this project I had no experience 👶 with Rust and was curious to see if I could use AI tools to assist in developing a program in a language I do not know. The initial version of the program was created using ChatGPT-4. I discussed that process in Episode 16 of Linux Matters. Since that initial MVP, I’ve used Unfold.ai to add features and improve the code 🧑‍💻 All commits since Oct 27, 2023 that were co-authored by AI have full details of the AI contribution in the commit message. I’ve picked up some Rust along way, and some refactoring came directly from my own brain 🧠

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You can download this recording in asciicast v2 format, as a .cast file.

Download

Replay in terminal

You can replay the downloaded recording in your terminal using the asciinema play command:

asciinema play 625194.cast

If you don't have asciinema CLI installed then see installation instructions.

Use with stand-alone player on your website

Download asciinema player from the releases page (you only need .js and .css file), then use it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="asciinema-player.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div id="player"></div>
  <script src="asciinema-player.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    AsciinemaPlayer.create(
      '/assets/625194.cast',
      document.getElementById('player'),
      { cols: 132, rows: 50 }
    );
  </script>
</body>
</html>

See asciinema player quick-start guide for full usage instructions.

While this site doesn't provide GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility - agg.

Once you have it installed, generate a GIF with the following command:

agg https://asciinema.org/a/625194 demo.gif

Or, if you already downloaded the recording file:

agg demo.cast demo.gif

Check agg --help for all available options. You can change font family and size, select color theme, adjust speed and more.

See agg manual for full usage instructions.