The Deletinator

About/Dear God Why!?

Once upon a time I was curious to see if anyone listened to arbitrary HTTP DELETE requests, so I wrote this. It spiders websites (a little too aggressively), sending DELETE to every single link it sees.

Obviously no-one supports that without some kind of auth, so the tool was given a new purpose: to download the links it sees, rather than just trying to delete them. It does this by making a list of links, then (using a hacky bash script) trying to download them all using wget.

It should go without saying to anyone who just read the previous two paragraphs that this is not a quality piece of software.

Download

Download Deletinator.tar.gz.

Usage

Check the README, which basically says this:

Use

First, edit deletinator to add a custom URL. Then either run it from bash with ./deletinator or inerpret it with python using 'python deletinator'. This will output its list to the terminal.

If you want to download the full site then simply run ./sitegrabber.sh, which will run deletinator and then wget. This is amazingly network intensive, and can DOS me off my own my connection...