Parallel downloads

Plowshare downloads links sequentially, regardless the hosting. Use this simple wrapper over plowdown to parallelize the process:

http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/source/browse/trunk/contrib/plowdown_parallel.sh

High-level script

deolivec has written a high level script to manage several things with plowdown :

• a plowdown process by server type
• download list update
• better download state display
• premium accounts
• for ssh users : use of nohup to start plowdown as a background process

plowdownHL git repository. You can post comments in  issue 257 .

Daemon script

vinhdizzo has written these two scripts for managing a download list file which send a email when download is done.

Usage (on Debian/Ubuntu):

1. Place plowshare_loop.sh somewhere ($HOME/bin). Modify "wd" and "MyEmail" in file and make file executable. Can modify this email to email when done.
2. Place plowshare_daemon.sh in /etc/init.d/. Then "sudo update-rc.d plowshare_daemon.sh default". Make executable.
3. Edit plowshare_daemon.sh and modify "user" and "loopscript".
4. sudo /etc/init.d/plowshare_daemon.sh restart
5. Paste links in "$wd/plowshare2download.txt" and files will be downloaded.
6. screen -r plowshare to look at screen session.

Download scripts here. You can post comments in  issue 185 .

Multi-Plowdown

Written in python.

https://github.com/gstarnberger/multi-plowdown

GUI frontend

tokland started sokha a web queue download manager. It's written in Ruby.

Plowshare jabber bot

A jabber bot that does just one thing: it uses plowshare to download what you paste.

https://github.com/chmduquesne/plowbot