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WHAT IS IT NAPFINDER?
Napfinder is a terrificly useful and easy-to-use program! Ok ok.. and
after that? Napfinder helps napster users in trying to resume files,
searching songs or find people in napster. Simply, it scans all
napster servers listed in napigator and check for the presence of a
specified user or song... How stupid (are you?), but because original
napster servers are not linked together, when you download a file from
someone, and this guy disconnect (as usual..) he will probably come
back the next day at the same hour!!! You say not? And I say YES! But,
as napster finds the best host for you everytime (and it's always
different), it's rare to connect on the same server where your friend
is connected... Since release 1.02.00 napfinder supports also
multithreading for a faster scan, and now requires
WGPL (al least 1.0.4). You can download WGPL from here.
Now napfinder supports also title search, the best tool for finding
your favourite tunes!
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COME ON... LET'S ROCK
Ok, as the original manpage in the package is in italian and I
absolutely don't want to translate it at all, I wrote a small
how-to:
- Compiling napfinder
napfinder now use automake/autoconf source tree, so simply
try:
./configure
and then
make
If compile fails, sorry, but maybe your system doesn't support a
SO small program. Report compiler's errors to the bug tracking
system at the http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/napfinder
and wait (like poing who is waiting for his graphics...).
Note: napfinder now support big-endian
systems.
- Installing/uninstalling napfinder
Like every GNU program with support of automake, when the package
is compiled and you have the privileges try:
make install
or
make uninstall
Automake will install napfinder in /usr/local/bin.
If you whant to change the prefix path, in configure line write:
./configure --prefix=/usr/ or similar.
- Executing napfinder
Ready for the apocalipse? Napfinder now supports parameter
parsing... the main command line is:
napfinder < -l login pass > [options] < -n
nick || -s song >
or
napfinder -O filename
Strange??? NAAAAhh... remember: <> indicate a required
switch, [] indicate an optional switch... || is the standard or
parameter.. right? so the command line could be:
napfinder -l login pass -n nick
or
napfinder -l login pass -c -s song
or
napfinder -l login pass -n nick -s song
Magic!!! Isn't it?
Now... let's explain how and why
napfinder works!!
Multithreading is disactivated by default (So there is 1 thread
active) because multiple loggings with the same nick on the same
napster server will create problems, disconnecting the user and
making an accurate search impossible, but this problem seems not
to exist on opennap servers. In order to make a more accurate
search napfinder logs all valid hosts recieved
from napigator and saves them into ~/.napfinder_memory.
This list will be called during the next scansion in case that
some hosts scanned beforehand are not existing any more in
napigator. The non valid hosts will obviously be removed. This
process is fully user-transparent and is activated by default
every time that napfinder downloads the hosts
from napigator. Instead, if using the -f switch all hosts will be
loaded from the log, and no hosts will be downloaded from
napigator.
- Options:
- -l, --login < login > < password
>
This option is mandatory and determines what username and
what password will be used to login the various servers.
- -d, --debug
Toggles the verbous debug mode on. All messages come with
a *** debug: and are redirected to the standard error.
- -n, --nick < nick >
Searches for a nick on the servers in list.
- -s, --search < song >
Searches for a song on the servers in list.
- -h, --help
Do I really need to explain??!!
- -t, --threads < number >
Specifies the number of threads active at the same time.
Default is 1 (No multithreading).
- -o, --only < network >
Searches only on servers that are part of the specified
network. Eg. Napster
- -x, --exclude < network >
Searches on all servers that are not part of the specified
network. Eg. Napster
- -r, --remove
If you are searching on linked servers it is useful to use
this option, witch searches only one one server per
network.
- -f, --file < file >
Instead of downloading the host list from napigator
napfinder will read the input file. The file is a list of
host:port network separated by a '\n' char (Yes..
it's the return key). If no port is specified, then default is
port 8888. If no network is specified, then default is value
"n/a".
- -t, --trycreate
If the login results invalid then napfinder
tryes to create an account with all the info given
with the -l option. Useful for the first searches.
- -k, --nacheck
Not accurate search. Pratically, not check if the user is
on a specific host (active), but checks only if the user is
logged on this network. Usefull for faster search on liked
servers in conjunction with -r switch
- -O, --outfile < file >
Downloads the hostlist from napigator, merges the list with
the current memory, saves the hostlist (compatible with -f
switch) in the specified file and exits.
Warning: If you're connected to napster with
another client during the scan you'll be disconnected directly by
the server, so, use it at your own risk. If possible, create a
"scan" account!
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Initial idea and code by wave++ (see the project page);
the project now is totally unmaintained since late 2001. Consider taking
over this and the WGPL project
on SourceForge.
I have to thank Bastian (aka Bastan Bug),
the greatest bug hunter never seen on this earth!
WANT A BUG HUNTER? Contact him! (But
warning, he asks 500$ per hour. Uhm, maybe now you'll ask for someone
else) He finded about 5 bugs a day pratically in real-time =)). Who
else can do this performance? NO ONE
This great (yes.. great, isn't it?) thing has been created with Amaya, a wisysCOFF.. haem..
editor.
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