# Mp3scrape **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686 "2008-08-01T06:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/1 "2008-08-01T06:12:08Z")
NAME mp3scrape SYNOPSIS mp3scrape uri [options]+ DESCRIPTION mp3scrape will scour any url for it’s mp3 content - the script mirrors, never downloading the same file twice. it does not, however, crawl a website for links, it simple scapes all the songs from a single page. PARAMETERS uri (1 → uri(uri)) the uri to scrape –pattern=pattern, -p (0 ~\> pattern='" ["']) specifiy the mp3 pattern –basedir=basedir, -b (0 ~\> basedir=/Users/ahoward/mp3) specifiy the base download dir - default(/Users/ahoward/mp3) –destination=destination, -d (0 ~\> destination) specifiy the absolute download dir - default(/Users/ahoward/mp3/auto-based-on-uri) –list only list the mp3s that would be scraped –threads=threads, -t (0 ~\> integer(threads=8)) specify the number of threads to download with in parallel - default(8) –noop, -n show the downloads that would be performed –help, -h INSTALL sudo gem install mp3scrape URI [http://codeforpeople.com](http://codeforpeople.com) EXAMPLES 1. get a bunch of xmas tunes mp3scrape [I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS: Christmas mixery](http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-mixery.html) 2. get a bunch of tunes mp2scrape [http://troubledsoulsunite.blogspot.com/](http://troubledsoulsunite.blogspot.com/) a @ [http://codeforpeople.com/](http://codeforpeople.com/) ---
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/2 "2008-08-04T03:19:38Z")
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM, ara howard [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > website for links, it simple scapes all the songs from a single page. > default(/Users/ahoward/mp3/auto-based-on-uri) > sudo gem install mp3scrape > > URI > [http://codeforpeople.com](http://codeforpeople.com) > > EXAMPLES > > 1. get a bunch of xmas tunes > mp3scrape [I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS: Christmas mixery](http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-mixery.html) > > 2. get a bunch of tunes > mp2scrape [http://troubledsoulsunite.blogspot.com/](http://troubledsoulsunite.blogspot.com/) Nice, i’ve been doing similar stuff with a script of mine: [http://p.ramaze.net/1818](http://p.ramaze.net/1818) That i would use like: curl -s [I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS: Christmas mixery](http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-mixery.html) | uris | egrep ‘.mp3$’ | xargs wget But thanks, I’ll check this one out 🙂 ^ manveru ---
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/3 "2008-08-04T18:34:19Z")
On Aug 3, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Michael F. wrote: > Nice, i’ve been doing similar stuff with a script of mine: > [http://p.ramaze.net/1818](http://p.ramaze.net/1818) > > That i would use like: > curl -s [I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS: Christmas mixery](http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-mixery.html) > | uris | egrep ‘.mp3$’ | xargs wget > > But thanks, I’ll check this one out 🙂 > ^ manveru cool. my next plan is to make it crawl - but limiting is a big issue… rfc 😉 a @ [http://codeforpeople.com/](http://codeforpeople.com/) ---
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/4 "2008-09-09T19:12:57Z")
Thanks for this gem, Ara. Attached is a patch which changes mp3scrape to use Hpricot. It also prepends the supplied URL to relative URLs (that do not match with /^http:/). This allows mp3scrape to be used on pages such as ``` http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/SRPMS/openldap/ ``` to download RPMs instead. Please let me know what you think. ---
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/5 "2008-08-07T14:44:38Z")
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Joel VanderWerf [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ara howard wrote: > > > mp3scrape will scour any url for it’s mp3 content - the script mirrors, > > never downloading the same file twice. it does not, however, crawl a > > website for links, it simple scapes all the songs from a single page. > > Might be nice as a firefox plugin, too. See [http://www.downthemall.net/](http://www.downthemall.net/) ^ manveru ---
**Author:** ![ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ahoward)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mp3scrape/144686/6 "2008-08-07T02:11:17Z")
ara howard wrote: > mp3scrape will scour any url for it’s mp3 content - the script mirrors, > never downloading the same file twice. it does not, however, crawl a > website for links, it simple scapes all the songs from a single page. Might be nice as a firefox plugin, too.