Automated download Floatplane club

[Ningols]

Hi guys !

 

I just subscribed to the floatplane club and was thinking that the forum wasn't a great way to watch the videos (I know it's still in a kind of beta, I'm not complaining).

As I am currently using a plex server and sonarr (automated downloads) for all my totally legal media, I was wondering if it would be possible to automatically download the floatplane videos (maybe with rss?) so we would be able to watch everything from the same place, aka Plex ?

 

That would be SO awesome !

[Mr.Meerkat]

Well you could always make your own script but ya know, maybe we could get this implemented as a native forum thing  

[vanished]

-moved to feature suggestions-

[stuntguy3000]

Hey there,

 

Has anything like this been implemented? RSS?

 

I have an identical setup - and if RSS was implemented I would subscribe to the club.

[colonel_mortis]

1 hour ago, stuntguy3000 said:

Hey there,

 

Has anything like this been implemented? RSS?

 

I have an identical setup - and if RSS was implemented I would subscribe to the club.

At the moment, there is no useful RSS feed (there is one, but it requires you to be logged in and doesn't include the video URLs). It is something that may be implemented in the future though, depending on demand and an appropriate architecture.

[solsra]

I'd love to have this feature too.

[8uhbbhu8]

i DEFINITELY WOULDN'T mind this feature

[vanished]

I'm not sure how close Luke and the team are to rolling out the new improved off-forum version, but if something like that were to be added, it would be done there, not here I think, and it would probably be quite doable.

[alex73630]

I've been working for some days on a NodeJS script that helps downloading new videos and parse them for Plex.

 

It's on a GitHub repo here : Floatplane-Downloader

 

It's still in a early alpha release so I recommend to use it only if you know what you are doing.

 

I'm currently looking at adding automated download into it (you have to run it every time you want to check out if there is any new videos)

 

If anyone have some NodeJS skill here, feel free to help out through Issues/Pull requests!

[VariousPickles]

Perhaps I'm not grasping the complexities, but why not just a RSS feed of URLs to the different quality MP4s for each video, with access restricted behind some variety of authentication (anything from HTTP BASIC to Oauth2)?

 

It shouldn't be easier to automate the pirating of the living shit out of all-the-AV-things via EZTV than it is to support you guys ...

[colonel_mortis]

5 hours ago, VariousPickles said:

Perhaps I'm not grasping the complexities, but why not just a RSS feed of URLs to the different quality MP4s for each video, with access restricted behind some variety of authentication (anything from HTTP BASIC to Oauth2)?

 

It shouldn't be easier to automate the pirating of the living shit out of all-the-AV-things via EZTV than it is to support you guys ...

An RSS feed behind any form of authentication has problems, because most readers that I've seen have limited support for authentication. However, that's not the issue - the difficult part is that the video releases are handled through the forum, which knows nothing about the backend. In addition, when you request a video, a short-lived personal token is generated for you, which wouldn't work for an RSS feed where things in there should last for longer.

It is something that will be looked into with the new site, but it isn't something that can just be magically added, so it doesn't make sense to spend ages implementing it on the existing system which is not going to be used after the new site launches.