GetMediumURL

GetMediumURL is a simple Python package to get URLs of downloadable media (usually audio or video) and their metadata knowing their main URLs on websites using Flash-based players.

License

The following applies to all Python code in this package:

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For documentation:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Docstrings and comments from the package source code included in the documentation are dual-licensed under GNU Affero General Public license version 3 or later and GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 or later.

Requirements

Some plugins when used with Python 2.5 require the simplejson package (a derived one is included in newer Python releases).

Documentation is compiled using Sphinx.

For development these tools are recommended and called by the included Makefile:

Installing and updating using easy_install

Numbered releases of GetMediumURL can be installed or updated using the following command:

easy_install -U GetMediumURL

Optional dependencies should be installed separately, since they are not required for every possible use of the package.

Obtaining newer source

GetMediumURL uses the Mercurial version control system to store its source code. Mercurial is available in many GNU/Linux distributions as a package named mercurial.

To get the source of GetMediumURL, use the following command:

hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/getmediumurl/

It will make a getmediumurl directory, a different name can be specified as an additional argument to the hg clone command.

To update it, run hg pull -u in this directory.

Installing from source

Just run the following command:

python setup.py install

setup.py has many options listed using the --help option. To install in non-default directory, use the --prefix option to the install command.

Before installing it is encouraged to use the following command to test parts of GetMediumURL which do not make HTTP requests to external servers:

python setup.py test

All tests should pass.

Building documentation

Documentation is formatted by the following command:

python setup.py build_sphinx

An optional argument of -b can be used to specify different format than HTML.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs on the tracker at Savannah. If you are unsure if a given behaviour of the package is a bug, please post it to the mailing list.

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