nglister1
Tool to download newsgroup information from news servers
Usage
nglister [-u
username]
[-p
password]
[-P
port]
hostname
filename
nglister {-h | --help}
Overview
NGLister is a tool to download information about groups and other information available on an NNTP (Usenet news) server. It is designed to be fast and simple; just specify the server and the information you want, and NGLister will send it to standard output.
You can write the information to a file by appending:
> filename
to the end of your command-line.
Installation
To install NGLister, you will need a current version of Python <URL:http://www.python.org/>. NGLister requires only one other piece of software: Optik. You can find it at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/optik/Optik-1.3.tar.gz>.
To install, run this command as root: python setup.py install
Options
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-u username -
Specifies the user name to use for logging into the server. Use this only if your server requires authentication.
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-p password -
Specifies the password to use for logging into the server. Use this only if your server requires a password.
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-P port -
Specifies the numeric port to use when connecting. Most servers listen on port 119, the default NNTP port, so that value is used by the default. This option will only be needed rarely.
- hostname
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Specifies the name of the NNTP server.
- filename
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Specifies the name of the data to retrieve from the remote NNTP server. Most people will use active or newsgroups here. The set of files supported varies from one server to the next. Please note that this parameter does
notdenote an output filename or even a real filename; just the type of information you want from the server. Here is a list of commonly-supported information types. Additional items are specified in RFC2980 <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2980.txt> with the LIST command.- •
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active lists all newsgroups and describes their numbering.
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newsgroups lists the newsgroup descriptions. Note that most servers do not carry descriptions for all groups, and the groups that lack a description will not be listed here at all.
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active.times describes how recently each newsgroup has seen activity.
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motd shows the server's "Message Of The Day" -- that is, current news about the server.
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-h
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--help -
Displays brief usage help.
Releases
Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).