py-sourceforge-file-hasher

1. Dependencies

• Windows OS
• 7-Zip installed in default directory
• Python3 (developed w/ version 3.10.2, other versions not tested)

2. Setup

• pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Purpose of demo

Purpose of demo is to show a process steps (in Windows OS):

1. Scrape Sourceforge top 100 software links
2. Filter Windows PE files and download in current dir
3. Rename files after SHA-1 hashes
4. Compress files with 7-Zip (via GUI automation)

• Run command for demo: python ./main.py

3. Potential demo improvement list

• Optimize/refactor process
• Improve 7-Zip GUI handling, application cleanup/close down
• Exception handling
• Include archive behaviour if WinRAR is install instead of 7Z
• Move archived folder to another location and cleanup after
• Additional archiving settings (filetype, compression, directory)
• Create temp cache logs for previously downloaded files to avoid duplicates
• Add other criteria from release filtering
• Async file downloads
• SFScraper module as commandline tool
• SFScraper get projects by count, not by pages