Drew Lawson wrote:
> Any suggestions on a more simplistic harvester? I doubt anything
> ever gets posted multi-part there.

Not that I have tested it, but PicMonger[1] perhaps?
Other alternatives are bgrab, brag, cg, hellanzb, newsgrab, nzbget,
nzbperl, ubh, and probably more.


References:
1) http://www.freshports.org/news/PicMonger/
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Drew Lawson wrote:
> I'm looking for a usenet binary harvester, preferably in the ports
> collection. I tried using aub, but it apparently decides based on
> message Subject: whether to extract the post. The group that I'm
> trying to extract (alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking) doesn't follow
> the warez/porn/whatever conventions for that, just people posting
> pictures of their work. So I'm only grabbing maybe 1/3 of the
> pictures.
>
> Any suggestions on a more simplistic harvester? I doubt anything
> ever gets posted multi-part there.
>


As already suggested by Torfinn... I personally use bgrab... nice
console grabber.

drew@furrfu.com (Drew Lawson) writes:

> I'm looking for a usenet binary harvester, preferably in the ports
> collection. I tried using aub, but it apparently decides based on
> message Subject: whether to extract the post. The group that I'm
> trying to extract (alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking) doesn't follow
> the warez/porn/whatever conventions for that, just people posting
> pictures of their work. So I'm only grabbing maybe 1/3 of the
> pictures.
>
> Any suggestions on a more simplistic harvester? I doubt anything
> ever gets posted multi-part there.

I would think you'd rather have a newsreader that can pick up the
pictures, rather than an outside program. This is more intrusive on
your habits, but has a significant advantage in that the pictures stay
attached to the text that they illustrate.

In article ,
Drew Lawson wrote:
>
>
>I'm looking for a usenet binary harvester, preferably in the ports
>collection. I tried using aub, but it apparently decides based on
>message Subject: whether to extract the post. The group that I'm
>trying to extract (alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking) doesn't follow
>the warez/porn/whatever conventions for that, just people posting
>pictures of their work. So I'm only grabbing maybe 1/3 of the
>pictures.
>
>Any suggestions on a more simplistic harvester? I doubt anything
>ever gets posted multi-part there.

Well, if you don't mind using something interactive rather than automated,
both pan and klibido do a very nice job of downloading and extracting
binaries. Klibido is the more "dedicated" of the two, in that it's not
really a newsreader per se, but was created solely for the purpose of
downloading Usenet binaries.

HTH

--
Conrad J. Sabatier

"Procrastinate now; don't put it off." -- Ellen Degeneres

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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:44:57 GMT, Drew Lawson wrote:
> Any suggestions on a more simplistic harvester? I doubt anything
> ever gets posted multi-part there.

Not exactly what you want, but I do remember writing such a thing using
uh, python and some nntp library. Being a relative python newbie back
then (five or more years ago, the source I probably lost) it took a day
or two to get the basics up, and the script ended up being something
like a hundred lines total. I think it did do multipart and pieced
things together based on regular expressions. Of course, if you want
to run it regularly such a thing should probably keep a last-read mark
instead of just feeding it a list of things to fetch. But the point is
that it isn't exactly hard to write a simplistic fetcher if you already
have something that talks nntp.


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