** NOTE **
Gnapster no longer depends on LWP, so it should run fine for everybody now
assuming that you're not running it from behind a proxy.
Also, the newer version of gnapster include a feature to retrieve the servers automatically when you go into browse opennap servers; however, gnapfetch seems to return quite a few more servers than this feature does. In addition, gnapfetch allows you to sort on ping times, users, # of songs, or gigs of data.
** Description **
This program is about as simple as they come. Just run ./gnapfetch, and it'll print the servers in gnapster format or ./gnapfetch -t for TekNap format. If you're using gnapster version 1.3.10 or higher, make sure that you use the -f option. gnapfetch -h gives a list of all of the options(sorting, writing to a file etc...). You'll figure it out :-). As for installation mv gnapfetch /usr/local/bin/ should work nicely. The program works by connecting to the napigator server and parsing the output of their server list. It then writes the results to stdout which should be redirected like so
if you're using gnapster < 1.3.10:
gnapfetch > /home/your_username/.gnapster/servers or gnapfetch -o /home/your_username/.gnapster/servers
if you're using gnapster >= 1.3.10:
gnapfetch -o /home/your_username/.gnapster/servers2 -f
if you're using TekNap:
gnapfetch -n your_nick -p your_pass -t > /home/your_username/.teknaprc
note: the -n and -p flags are optional. -h or --help displays usage of the program.
After running it, you should have a much longer/better list of opennap servers than before. You have to run it often to keep the list up to date, so if you're a regular user of gnapster/TekNap, you may want to consider a crontab. Please send questions/comments to <whitton@atlantic.net>. Also, an exclude feature has been added. If you don't want any particular server to show up in the list modify the my $exclude = qr/WhateverYouWant|SomeServer/; line to reflect the exclusions that you're interested in.
- Thanks
Decklin Foster <fosterd@hartwick.edu>
for adding the exclude feature and reporting a stupid oversight on my part involving
precedence in an open statement in version 0.1.
German Gutierrez <german@dd.com.ar>
for adding socket support so that gnapfetch no longer depends on LWP.
Frido Ferdinand <frido@euronet.nl>
for adding sorting, getopts, pinging, outfile selection and the verbosity option.