Hi,

I am looking for possibility to download demos knowing their number on mvdsv side, but without using ezquake or other GUI client. In other words, is there a way to do it from CLI?

I was reading at this topic: http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/topic/4925/server-demo-download-tool but author seem to abandon idea or never posted his solution.

Also, there is a simple way to list demos for those who are using bash:


Is there a similar way to redirect stream to file after creating raw connection to server and sending some magic sequence of characters?

IIRC atleast chunked downloads (FTE extension that allows > 3kB/s dl speed) uses reliable packets so you'd probably need to fix support for that. (It's on top of the UDP layer). I think Spike (Spoike on IRC usually) can give you the best answer, he's at #FTE at QuakeNet IRC.

Btw, the commands shown have little to do with bash, it works with basically any shell. Netcat is a requirement though that might have to be installed. I recommend the BSD version over GNU.

Thanks dimman. Actually I pulled together ugly combination of expect/python/conection-less commands and thin_client from jogi. Piece of code available at:
https://github.com/d2-d2/qw_demo_downloader

It is doing what i wanted (searching/downloading demos from CLI), but it's not compatible with FTE (thin_client is using old fuhquake code).

(Edited 2014-05-08, 09:03)

gold!
works perfectly! good job mate.
some notes tho:
* when connecting to a server with the thinclient, i can download demos, but after a few minutes, the server kicks me printing the following:


but i guess you already know this.

the python script works! ive found some demos of mine on dm2
good job!

im thinking of stuff to do with the thinclient while im at work ...

Thanks mushi for your feedback. I think the reason why server kicks you out is that you are starting client without limit on FPS to that server. Please try:



With this parameter I was able to stay on any server without interruption.

im sure something like that will work. why not add that to the default configuration file?

Actually dd.py is using this syntax. But not a problem, i will create autoexec.cfg for thin_client too.