Applications for Messaging in Freenet

Our focus is on BBS systems, primitive 'email' systems, feedback mechanicsms etc. within Freenet.

Freenet Grab

Freenet Grab (fngrab.py) is a GPL'd replacement for the official Freenet Project's freenet_request (Un*x) and frequest.exe (Windows). Freenet Grab has several features freenet_request/frequest doesn't have:

• Retrying failed requests with incremental hops to live.
  
  
• New: Multiple simultaneous downloads (multi-threading)
  
  
• Better support for in-Freenet key index searching. The official Freenet client doesn't let you specify a range or set the threshold for the number of fails to quit before giving up. If a range isn't specified, fngrab.py starts searching the index at 1 and continues until the number of fails equals the threshold.
  
  
• Specify a file containing a list of keys to download. The file format is simply a text file containing a key on each line. When you download keys listed in a file, it derives the filenames from the keys:
  
  freenet:KSK@/mp3/britney/I_was_born_to_make_Rob_happy.mp3
  would be saved as I_was_born_to_make_Rob_happy.mp3
  
  freenet:KSK@test
  would simply be saved as test
  
  
• Verifying a list of keys in a file. Keys are requested but the process aborts after a few kilobytes have been downloaded. Results of the tested keys are saved in a file.
  

0.0.4 has multi-threaded simultaneous downloads, better support for Freenet 0.3.9.1-style index and key indexes and many bugfixes.
Here is the change log. Download fngrab-0.0.4.tar.gz here. (Approx 15k)

A Windows .exe version will be available shortly. If you already have Python installed, the version above will work.

For usage and examples see the README.

Freenet Grab was developed and tested on Linux and FreeBSD and reportedly works on Solaris, Windows 9.x,NT,2k, and other *nix.

I'm looking for a Windows developer to iron out a bug or three.