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can i display new files shared in the hub?

Asked by hypn0toad

my question might be an odd one:

so people have their files shared, and they are constantly adding new stuff. it can be annoying to randomly look at someones files to see what is new.

is there a way to automatically prompt the hub with new files that have been hashed?

i can see this working as:
1) A hub feature
2) A bot feature
3) A client feature

the messages could either be displayed in the chat window for all, or maybe be a command !recent or something, and the results come in a chat window (although that would probalby have to be a bot function)

If there is any way to do this let me know, i'm willing to switch hubsofts (as long as they support GUI-less ubuntu), add a bot (ideally again GUI-less ubuntu) or get the clients to add stuff.

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Best Pseudonym (404emailnotfound) said : 		#1

I don't think there's anything that already does this, though if you run a client (possibly some op client) that automatically downloads filelists from users, it probably won't be too hard to have a script that checks for changes and extracts the names and hashes from the filelists. You could compare this to your cache of files you've already seen and output new ones to some file. Verlihub, at least, lets you add triggers that display file contents to the user.

A much simpler idea, if the people that bring new stuff are actually active, is to have people adding new stuff post magnet links in main chat, and run a script that keeps track of ones posted in the last day or so. This works best for new episodes of TV shows and movies; it doesn't work as nicely for random files. I have a (rather hackish) plugin for Verlihub that does this if you're interested.

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hypn0toad (nmcbean) said : 		#2

that works, i think i'm just gonna have people post the information.. .then ill have a bot grab the chatwindow. i'm using opendchub so it probably wont be compatible, but for now ill just have people manually post links, and if you arent around you miss out (it wille ncourage people to stay in).

thanks for the ideas!