Is there a better client for CTCP download than mIRC?
reddit / irc

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beardedqueen · 2020-09-04 23:16

I've been using this forever, but I want to download a show that is
100+ episodes, and this is only place I can find it. Is there a better
client for this? It's so tedious...

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floobledooble · 2020-09-04 23:26

Would also like to know if there’s a better way than via mIRC, I have
a couple of shows I can’t find anywhere else

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beardedqueen · 2020-09-04 23:28

Well torrenting or Usenet are much better ways to download shows. But
the show I'm looking for literally only exists on the internet at
#big-brother on EFNet lol.

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KindOne · 2020-09-04 23:44

What exactly is wrong with mIRC? You could script it.

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beardedqueen · 2020-09-05 00:30

To download that many episodes will just take a really long time.
Manually copying and pasting each episode until I fill up the servers
queue 20 times. It just seems like it would take forever, and there
I'm just wondering because I'd like to get more seasons of this show,
but they're all like 100+, so anything that would speed the process
would be so great. Is it difficult to script?

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KindOne · 2020-09-05 00:34

Message me the network/channel, I can try to write a script.

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[deleted] · 2020-09-05 00:44

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benwap · 2020-09-05 04:25

There are scripts that will run in mIRC that will make a database of
the bots package lists and let you download a selection. I'll see if I
can find it.
e: I think it was
[this](https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdccbrowser/), been a while.

e2: changed the link!

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beardedqueen · 2020-09-05 04:43

Does this work for Fserve too or just XDCC? Thanks for the help either
way!

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benwap · 2020-09-05 04:47

Not sure. I found an alternative called XDCC Klipper, it has a
[comprehensive support
document](http://xdccklipper.sourceforge.net/support/support.pdf) that
might answer that question.

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benwap · 2020-09-05 04:50

Also some rooms will ban you when they detect this type of script so
be conservative in your settings.

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r_ny · 2020-09-05 22:56

Sonarr + jackett + deluge is all you need. I torrent thousands of
shows/movies this way all the time.

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beardedqueen · 2020-09-06 05:33

I still can only find Celebrity Big Brother UK 17 Bits on the Side on
this particular IRC channel. Tried BTN, several NZB indexers, other
public/private trackers, and forums lol.