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):

Scrape Sourceforge top 100 software links
Filter Windows PE files and download in current dir
Rename files after SHA-1 hashes
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