PIMPPA is a binary looting software that allows users to download files from newsgroups and FTP sites, although the FTP support may no longer be available.
If you are looking for a tool to loot binaries from newsgroups, PIMPPA might be the solution for you. Although it also has FTP support, it is likely to be deprecated. PIMPPA tries to offer a complete "hands free" experience where possible, making it the perfect fit for connoisseurs, collectors, and worshipers of the mighty crond. However, it may not be very useful for those who favor interactive solutions.
Some of the key features of PIMPPA include the ability to skip duplicates and spam before downloading actual messages, as well as further duplicate discarding based on filenames and MD5-checksums. It also allows user-definable, content-based pruning scripts for even more involved discarding, and intelligent multipart handling to download only complete postings. In addition, it supports multiple newsservers, filename-based sorting of accepted files to proper directories, and can be used to hunt known file series, extensions, or message subject patterns and skip the rest. It also supports automatic file integrity testing and transformation, several tools and scripts for file maintenance and viewing, and its knowledge is kept in an SQL database, making it relatively easy for users to write their custom scripts and utilities. The tool is cronable, so you can come back next week to check the filtered catch, and it also comes with an optional Gnome GUI.
The software is free and GPL'ed Open Source.
To use PIMPPA, you will need to have MySQL, suck, and uudeview installed.
The latest version of PIMPPA comes with support for leeching web image galleries through index sites pointing to them. The links crawled through can be filtered by keywords and auto-tagged with keywords found in the link or its description. Additionally, files can now be tagged and viewed based on matching a set of keywords.
Some of the key features of PIMPPA include the ability to skip duplicates and spam before downloading actual messages, as well as further duplicate discarding based on filenames and MD5-checksums. It also allows user-definable, content-based pruning scripts for even more involved discarding, and intelligent multipart handling to download only complete postings. In addition, it supports multiple newsservers, filename-based sorting of accepted files to proper directories, and can be used to hunt known file series, extensions, or message subject patterns and skip the rest. It also supports automatic file integrity testing and transformation, several tools and scripts for file maintenance and viewing, and its knowledge is kept in an SQL database, making it relatively easy for users to write their custom scripts and utilities. The tool is cronable, so you can come back next week to check the filtered catch, and it also comes with an optional Gnome GUI.
The software is free and GPL'ed Open Source.
To use PIMPPA, you will need to have MySQL, suck, and uudeview installed.
The latest version of PIMPPA comes with support for leeching web image galleries through index sites pointing to them. The links crawled through can be filtered by keywords and auto-tagged with keywords found in the link or its description. Additionally, files can now be tagged and viewed based on matching a set of keywords.
What's New
Version 0.6.0: N/A