ANN: soul-0.6.py Summary Of Usenet Links

[Mark Carter]

SOUL is a python script that downloads news articles (e.g. from Usenet)
via NNTP, and summarises the articles that it finds. It is currently in
an alpha stage, quite usable, but unlikely to move beyond the alpha stage.


Typical usage might be:
python soulNN.py -g alt.comp.freeware --last acf.txt \
-p password -s news.individual.net -u username
where NN is the current release version of the script.

The --last option specifies a file to store the ID of the last article
in the group. Specify a non-existent filename (the initials of the group
would be a sensible choice) when you first run it for a particular
group. Soul will then only summarise the last 10 articles to the group.
Subsequent runs will remember the last article read, so it should prove
more useful after that.

For detailed help on usage and options, type:
python soulNN.py -h

Requires the python programming language to work. It is known to work
with version 2.3.3 (or later), although slightly earlier versions might
work (it makes use of sets).

The latest versions of the script are usually posted to urls.sytes.net
to newsgroup sw.public_domain.


Mark Carter: mcturra2000 + yahoo + co + uk, www.markcarter.me.uk
17-Jul-2004

 

[Mark Carter]

SOUL is a python script that downloads news articles (e.g. from Usenet)
via NNTP, and summarises the articles that it finds.

The latest versions of the script are usually posted to urls.sytes.net
to newsgroup sw.public_domain.

It's now also available from my website:
http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/freeware/soul/soul.htm