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Description
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- Tucan is a free and open source application designed for automatic
management of downloads and uploads at hosting sites like:
- http://rapidshare.com/
- http://megaupload.com/
- http://gigasize.com/
- http://mediafire.com/
- http://4shared.com/
- http://sendspace.com/
- http://zshare.net/
- http://filefactory.com/
- http://easy-share.com/
- http://badongo.com/
- http://depositfiles.com/
- http://hotfile.com/
- (...)
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Characteristics
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- Written entirely in Python.
- Graphical User Interface written in PyGTK (GTK+ toolkit).
- Multiplatform (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows...).
- Easy to expand with plugins.
- Lightweight and fast.
- Management of waits between downloads (anonymous access).
- Captcha recognition where needed (like anonymous access to
megaupload or gigasize).
- Management of interchangeable links.
- Proxy support.
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Plugins
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+===================+========================+=============================+
| Hosting site | Downloads | Uploads |
+===================+========================+=============================+
| rapidshare.com | anonymous and premium | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| megaupload.com | anonymous and premium | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| gigasize.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| mediafire.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| 4shared.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| sendspace.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| zshare.net | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| filefactory.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| easy-share.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| badongo.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| depositfiles.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| hotfile.com | anonymous | |
+-------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
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Dependencies
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- Python >= 2.5
- PyGTK
- Python Imaging Library
- Tesseract OCR (with the english language pack)
- SVG Rendering Library
+=========================+===================+====================+
| Package \ Distribution | Debian / Ubuntu | Gentoo |
+=========================+===================+====================+
| Python >= 2.5 | python | dev-lang/python |
+-------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
| PyGTK | python-gtk2 | dev-python/pygtk |
+-------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
| Python Imaging Library | python-imaging | dev-python/imaging |
+-------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
| Tesseract OCR | tesseract-ocr | app-text/tesseract |
| (english language pack) | tesseract-ocr-eng | (linguas_en) |
+-------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
| SVG Rendering Library | librsvg2-common | gnome-base/librsvg |
+-------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
+===========+====================+================+================+
| Arch | Fedora | OpenSuSE | Mandriva |
+===========+====================+================+================+
| python | python | python | python |
+-----------+--------------------+----------------+----------------+
| pygtk | pygtk2 | python-gtk | pygtk2.0 |
+-----------+--------------------+----------------+----------------+
| pil | python-imaging | python-imaging | python-imaging |
+-----------+--------------------+----------------+----------------+
| tesseract | tesseract | tesseract | tesseract |
| | tesseract-langpack | | |
+-----------+--------------------+----------------+----------------+
| librsvg | librsvg2 | librsvg | librsvg |
+-----------+--------------------+----------------+----------------+
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Download
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- Stable version:
https://forja.rediris.es/projects/cusl3-tucan/ -> Files
- Development version (needs subversion):
$ svn co https://forja.rediris.es/svn/cusl3-tucan/trunk tucan
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Installation & Usage
=========
- Unpack the tarball:
$ tar zxvf tucan-<version>.tar.gz
$ cd tucan-<version>/
- Install Tucan typing (needs root privileges):
# make install
- Run Tucan typing in a terminal:
$ tucan
----------
- Uninstall Tucan typing (needs root privileges):
# make uninstall
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Update Manager
=========
- Tucan brings some services that sometimes need to be updated and other times
there are new services available.
- In order to update (or install new) services Tucan has a system update:
- Automatic usage:
- For enable/disable it, the user must go to the Preferences window >
Advanced > "Automatic check for updates." (enabled by default).
- Manual usage:
- For enable it, the user must go to the Preferences window > Services >
Find.
- After an update of services Tucan needs to be restarted.
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Tips & Tricks
=========
- Before running a new version, it's recommended to remove the directory
/home/<user>/.tucan/ or C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.tucan\ if exists.
- The first time you run Tucan (without directory ~/.tucan/), the Preferences
window appears.
- Before running a service, it must be enabled in "Service Configuration" in
the Preferences window.
- Anonymous access to http://gigasize.com/:
- gigasize.com disallows checking links if an active link is already
downloading from this service.
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Links
=========
- http://tucaneando.com/
- http://doc.tucaneando.com/
- http://blog.tucaneando.com/
- http://forums.tucaneando.com/
- https://forja.rediris.es/projects/cusl3-tucan/
