Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: metaTED
Version: 2.0.0
Summary: Creates metalink files of TED talks for easier downloading
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/petar/metated/
Author: Petar Maric
Author-email: petar.maric@gmail.com
License: BSD
Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/metaTED
Description: metaTED is a tool that makes it easy to download all of the `TED talks`_. It
        does so by creating over 1,500 `metalinks`_ of TED talks varying in both the
        quality levels and possible talk groupings by directory. Features include:
        
            * Creates talks with informative file names - i.e.
              ``Unconventional Explanations/Hans Rosling on HIV - New facts and stunning data visuals.mp4``
              instead of original ``HansRosling_2009_480.mp4``.
        
            * Provides subtitles for talks in over 85 supported languages. New
              languages and translations are added daily through the
              `TED Open Translation Project`_, and you help out by
              `becoming a translator today`_.
        
            * Tries hard to get all of the talks, or at least most of them - with a good
              reason if some have failed.
        
            * More choice - creates one metalink per available quality level
              (currently low, standard and high).
        
            * More choice - creates one metalink per available talk grouping, with all
              talks belonging to the same group placed inside a common directory. The
              possible talk groupings are extracted from talks metadata (currently
              filming year, publishing year, talk theme, event name and author).
        
            * Aggressive caching throughout the project, to avoid expensive network/CPU
              operations as much as possible. Proper cache invalidation included.
        
            * High levels of fault tolerance. 
        
            * Simple, yet powerful homegrown web crawler. 
        
            * Flexible and extensible software design with changes in mind.
        
            * Provides both the console script and a public API.
        
        .. _becoming a translator today: http://www.ted.com/translate/forted
        .. _metalinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
        .. _TED talks: http://www.ted.com/
        .. _TED Open Translation Project: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/287
        
        Downloading TED talks
        =====================
        
        If you just want to `download TED talks`_, you don't need to install this
        package, or even Python. All you need to do is get a
        `download client that supports the Metalink standard`_ and choose one of the
        `daily updated metalinks`_.
        
        .. _download TED talks: http://metated.petarmaric.com/
        .. _download client that supports the Metalink standard:
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink#Client_programs
        .. _daily updated metalinks: http://metated.petarmaric.com/
        
        Installing and running metaTED
        ==============================
        
        You can install metaTED with `pip`_ via ``pip install metaTED``. You can run it
        with ``metaTED``, or ``metaTED -h`` to get help and the list of all available
        options.
        
        The project itself is `hosted on bitbucket`_, from where you can get the code
        and report bugs.
        
        .. _pip: http://pip.openplans.org/
        .. _hosted on bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/petar/metated/
        
        New in metaTED 2.0.0
        ====================
        
        metaTED 2.0.0 has been in the works for some time. It's the bigest change yet in
        the projects short lived 2.5 year history. Cool stuff has been added, bugs were
        fixed, but the API has seen some backwards incompatible changes as well.
        
        Feature additions
        -----------------
        
            * Fixed `issue #4`_ - Added talk subtitles support, as per popular request.
              Major thanks to Randall Mason for the initial implementation.
        
            * Added parallelism to the crawler, leading to substantial performance
              improvements.
        
            * Added filming year, publishing year and event name to talks metadata,
              which automagically added new possible talk groupings.
        
            * Added parallelism to the metalink generator, leading to substantial
              performance improvements.
        
        .. _issue #4: https://bitbucket.org/petar/metated/issue/4/include-subtitles
        
        Bugfixes
        --------
        
            * Updated talk theme markers as TED updated their HTML layout and improved
              error handling.
        
            * Updated video download markers and download URLs detection code as TED
              updated their HTML layout.
        
            * Updated author markers and detection code as TED updated their HTML
              layout.
        
            * talk_info metadata cache is written to disk as soon as possible to
              minimize data loss on errors.
        
            * Removed `setup.cfg` as we no longer need it.
        
            * Removed the `dreamy-trac` project reference from `LICENSE`.
        
        Internals
        ---------
        
            * Switched from using `setuptools` to `distribute` for packaging.
        
            * Removed crawler based page caching as it's no longer used nor needed.
        
            * Switched from `BeautifulSoup` to `lxml` and removed custom crawler code in
              favor of `lxml.html.parse`.
        
            * Minimal Python version bumped from 2.4+ to 2.6+.
        
            * Major refactoring to modernize existing codebase, while improving code
              style, optimizing performance and getting rid of accumulated technical
              debt. Existing API has suffered a bit.
        
Keywords: TED metalink download video
Platform: any
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
