xdccget

This is a project that allows you to download files from IRC with XDCC with an easy and simple to use command line tool like wget or curl. It supports at the moment Linux, Windows (with cygwin) and BSD-variants. Also OSX with some installed ports works.

Quick facts

• it is free software licenced under the GPL
• minimal usage of cpu and memory
• runs under Linux, BSDs, MacOSX and Windows (see notes for compiling below)
• support for IPv4 and IPv6 connections
• can be configured with configuration-file
• supports connection with and without SSL/TLS
• bots with support for ssend-command are supported

Using xdccget

In order to use xdccget properly i will provide some simple examples. You should be able to extract the options for your personal usage quite quickly, i guess:

For example, let's assume that you want to download the package 34 from the bot super-duper-bot at the channel best-channel from the irc-server irc.sampel.net without ssl and from the standard-irc-port 6667. Then the command line argument for xdccget would be:

xdccget -i "irc.sampel.net" "#best-channel" "super-duper-bot xdcc send #34"

This would download the package 34 from super-duper-bot without using ssl. You can also specifiy a special port, so lets assume that the irc.sampel.net server would use the port 1337. Then our xdcc-get-call would be like this:

xdccget -i -p 1337 "irc.sampel.net" "#best-channel" "super-duper-bot xdcc send #34"

If your irc-network supports ssl you can even use an secure ssl-connection with xdccget. So lets imagine that irc.sampel.net uses ssl on port 1338. Then we would call xdccget like this to use ssl:

xdccget -i -p 1338 "#irc.sampel.net" "#best-channel" "super-duper-bot xdcc send #34"

Notice the #-character in front of irc.sampel.net. This tells xdccget to use ssl/tls on the connection to the irc-server. If the bot even supports ssl than you can use the ssend-command to use an ssl-encrypted connection with the bot. So for example if the super-duper-bot would support ssl-connection, then we could call xdccget like:

xdccget -i -p 1338 "#irc.sampel.net" "#best-channel" "super-duper-bot xdcc ssend #34"

Notice the xdcc ssend command instead of xdcc send. This tells the bot that we want connect to him with ssl enabled.

You can also join multiple channels, so if you also have to join #best-chat-channel in order to download packages from #best-channel, then you can call xdccget like:

xdccget -i "irc.sampel.net" "#best-channel, #best-chat-channel" "super-duper-bot xdcc send #34"

This is the basic usage of xdccget. You can call xdccget --help to understand all currently supported arguments. xdccget also uses a config file, which will be placed at your homefolder in .xdccget/config. You can modify the default parameters to your matters quickly.

Compiling xdccget

Compiling xdccget is just running make from the root folder of the repository. Please make sure, that you have installed the depended libraries (OpenSSL and for some systems argp-library) and use the correct Makefile for your system.

Ubuntu and derivants

To compile xdccget under Ubuntu and other distros like Linux Mint you have to install the package libssl-dev with apt-get. You also need the build-essential package.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential

other linux distros

You need to make sure, that you have the openssl-development packages for you favorite distribution installed.

OSX and BSD

For osx and bsd systems you need to also install the development files for openssl. You need to install the library argp, which is used to parse command line arguments. Please make sure, that you rename the Makefile.FreeBSD for example to Makefile if you want to compile for FreeBSD.

If you use pkg on FreeBSD for package-management you can issue the following command to install the required libs:

sudo pkg install gcc argp-standalone openssl

On OSX and other BSD variants you have to use an alternative way to install the packages.

Windows

For windows you first need to install cygwin. Please make sure that you install gcc-core, libargp and openssl-devel with cygwin. If you have installed all depedent libraries then you can compile xdccget with cygwin by using the Makefile.cygwin. Please rename Makefile.cygwin to Makefile and then run make from the cygwin terminal.

Configure xdccget

You can configure some options with the config file. It is placed in the folder .xdccget in your home directory of your operating system. The following options are currently supported:

downloadDir     - this defines the default directory used to store the downloaded files
logLevel        - this defines the default logging level. valid options are info, warn and error
allowAllCerts   - this options will allow silently all self signed certificates if set to true
verifyChecksums - this option will automatically wait after the download completed to verify checksums. 
                  please note that if set to true xdccget does not exit after the download finished and 
                  you have to manually exit xdccget.