Easy-extract

Easy-extract try to be a simple and universal multipart unarchiver, it is designed to extract and repair collections of many archives format (rar, zip, xtm) in one command line.

Very usefull when you grab on Usenet and you have many archives in differents directory.

Installation

Before you start using easy-extract, you must install these softwares :

• unrar-free
• 7zip-full
• par2

Then use easy_install:

$ easy_install easy-extract

Usage

Usage: easy_extract [options] [directory]...

Options:

--version	show program's version number and exit
-h, --help	show this help message and exit
-f, --force	Do not prompt confirmation message
-n, --not-repair
	Do not try to repair archives on errors
-c, --repair-only
	Do only a check and repair operation
-r, --recursive
	Find archives recursively
-k, --keep	Do not delete archives on success
-x, --no-index	Do not index the extracted files

Simply run easy_extract in the directory where the collections are:

$ easy_extract

To find archives recursively in a directory:

$ easy_extract -r my_archives/

All the archives found will be prompted, then confirm the extraction. Go make a coffee, the script will do the rest ! Easy_extract will handle the repair if the archives are corrupted.

Code

If you want to reuse the code to find archives you can do something like that :

>>> from easy_extract.archive_finder import ArchiveFinder
>>> from easy_extract.archives.rar import RarArchive
>>> archive_finder = ArchiveFinder('./my_path/', recursive=True, archive_classes=[RarArchive,])
>>> archive_finder.archives
... [<easy_extract.archives.rar.RarArchive object at 0x...>, <easy_extract.archives.rar.RarArchive object at 0x...>]