Aurscrape

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aurscrape Contributed by: Aaron Griffin

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12037

Seeing as cvsup isn't working with aur yet, I made a little script to download the entire set of aur package directories... yeah, it takes a long time... it's using HTTP and scraping apache's directory listing format... but it works...

#!/bin/sh
#AUR Web Scraping to get all PKGBUILDs
#Aaron Griffin [[phrakture]]

BASEDIR="$HOME/aur"
PKGURL="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/"
PKGFILE="index.html"

# get_dir http://www.xyz.com/a
# This function will get all files
# listed in an apache formatted directory list
function get_dir()
{
   local thisdir=`basename $1`

   if [[ "x$thisdir" != "x" ]]; then
      mkdir $thisdir
      cd $thisdir
      wget -q $1
      if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
         local files=`grep "\[[   \]]" $PKGFILE ||\
                      sed 's@.*href=\"\(.*\)\".*@\1@g'`
         #skip parent dir, infinate recursion
         local dirs=`grep "\[[DIR\]]" $PKGFILE ||\
                     grep -v "Parent Directory" ||\
                     sed 's@.*href=\"\(.*\)\".*@\1@g'`
         rm $PKGFILE

         for f in $files; do
            echo "downloading $thisdir::$f"
            wget -q $1$f
         done

         for d in $dirs; do
            get_dir $1$d
         done

         cd ..
      else
         echo "error downloading directory list : $1"
      fi
   else
      echo "usage: get_dir <apache url>"
   fi
}

cd $BASEDIR
[[ -f $PKGFILE ]] && rm -f $PKGFILE

get_dir $PKGURL