Opendirectories

... is a bunch of tools to help facilitate search and acquisition of data.

Search data

... through a Chrome Extension or a Firefox Add-on.

The Chrome Extension has more features. The Add-on search is pretty basic, but gets the job done.

How to install the Chrome Extension

• go to chrome://extensions
• check Developer mode (top right)
• click Load unpacked extension... (top left)
• point it to the extension (the folder with the manifest.json file)
• click Select

How to install the Firefox Add-on

• go to about:addons
• click settings button next to the search field (top right) and select Install Add-on From File...
• point it to the extension (the folder with the manifest.json file)
• click Open

Acquire data

... through a Chrome Extension and a Rails 4 App. It handles regular URLs, BBC iPlayer videos and Youtube videos.

Install the Extension like above. Somewhere in the sources there's a SERVER and PORT constant. Change it to your needs. There's a build.sh to help you out afterwards.

Deploy the Rails 4 App like any other app. The Rails 4 App requires both get_iplayer and youtube-dl to do the heavy lifting. Resque does the queue handling.

Scripts

Two scripts that are basically a wrapper around wget and get_iplayer.