Patch for downloading multiple files in one request

[Craig Lister]

Not sure how to do a diff thingy; sorry

[Tyler Durden]

does this work?

[Craig Lister]

It's been working for me in my environment ;-)

[Tyler Durden]

what is the command for downloading multiple files in one request?

if it works you should do a pull requests etc..

[Craig Lister]

0 <First File to download> <Last File to download>

So its a range thing

[delx]

grabber: support fetching ranges (fixes #91)

→ <<cset e887afb119a3>>

[delx]

Great idea, thanks! I’ve pushed a variant of this in e887afb119a329627100596b4718ea1b09fc8470.

Use it like 1 5 9-12 to fetch 1 5 9 10 11 12

[Tyler Durden]

is this used for concurrent downloading?
ie downloading more than one file/episode at a time?

OR is this just so we can avoid having to type in each number at a time?

ie 1-12
instead of 1 2 3 . . . .12

BUT the downloading will still occur one file at a time?

[delx]

It’s the latter. Files will still be downloaded sequentially. You can always run multiple copies of webdl to download in parallel :)

[Tyler Durden]

Thanks for the variant version you pushed..
I like this much better and it makes it easier to choose single eps or a range of episodes..

I just tested this patch and it truly is a time saver from previous methods of needing to type one number at a time..
now I just type 1-20

Thanks to Craig Lister for creating the original code.

@delx
Is there any danger to downloading multiple streams concurrently from the same stream provider?
ie it gets flagged by the stream provider?

[delx]

I doubt they’d notice or care about 2-3 streams in parallel. I really have no idea though, it depends on what sort of monitoring their ops team is doing :)