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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_237__extending_addurl.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_237__extending_addurl.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e0129398e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_237__extending_addurl.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Worked on [[todo/extensible_addurl]] today. When `git annex addurl` is run, +remotes will be asked if they claim the url, and whichever remote does will +be used to download it, and location tracking will indicate that remote +contains the object. This is a masive 1000 line patch touching 30 files, +including follow-on changes in `rmurl` and `whereis` and even `rekey`. + +It should now be possible to build an external special remote that handles +*.torrent and magnet: urls and passes them off to a bittorrent client for +download, for example. + +Another use for this would be to make an external special remote that +uses youtube-dl or some other program than quvi for downloading web videos. +The builtin quvi support could probably be moved out of the web special +remote, to a separate remote. I haven't tried to do that yet. |