This repository is a collection of tiny utility scripts, patches and hacks.

These are mostly one-time scripts, very old and very specific. I doubt you'll be able to use them as-is. Until you update and tweak them to fit your needs.

And if by chance you fix some bugs or add new features, feel free to submit a pull request. I'll be happy to merge it.

The code here is generally poorly written. Either because my coding style has improved since I wrote them, or because I didn't bother to make the code elegant after I finished my first working iteration.

If for any reason one of these script get momentum, I'll consider moving it to a stand-alone and dedicated project. This already happened in the past with maildir-deduplicate.py.

• adsl-monitoring.py

  Used with cron, it helps me to keep my unreliable broadband access alive.

  Context: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2004/06/mise-en-place-paserelle-adsl-mandrake-10/

• audio-file-normalizer.py

  Parse a .m3u playlist file and convert Ogg/Vorbis and Flac files to AAC.

• avi2mp4.py

  Converts Avi files within the folder to compressed MP4/MP3 movies. Codecs parameters are adapted for tiny films taken with my cheap camera. This is VLC-based but older version were based on mplayer/mencoder.

  Based on: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2006/11/video-commands/

• bbpress-to-mailbox.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2012/10/converting-bbpress-forum-mailbox-archive/

• bbpress-to-wordpress.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2012/10/transfer-bbpress-to-plain-wordpress/

• confsaver.py

  Save a collection of files and directories into a Bzip2 compressed archive.

• cron-monitor-network.py

• crop-tiff-images.py

  Crops big tiff files in the folder one by one. I wrote this script as a stupid but working workaround to ImageMagick which wasn't able to handle too many files at once (at least on my Mandriva 2005, it always crash after several files processed).

• findDuplicates.py

  This script search and display all duplicate files within a folder structure.

  Also see: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2006/10/find-duplicate-files-in-a-folder/

• getAgentList.py

• KnewstickerToAkregator.py

  Parse the KNewsTicker configuration file of the current logged user to extract feeds references. Then the script generate a OPML/XML file that can be imported to Akregator. Prerequisite: KNewsTicker and pyxml.

  Also see: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85477

• KopeteChatRenderer.py

  Transform a Kopete history XML file to an ASCII file. I’ve written this script to be able to copy and paste my chat with pals in e-mails.

• la-bas.org-archive-download.py

  Similar to osdir-slideshow.py but designed to download Ogg archives of a french radio show thanks to wget.

• maildir2ical.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/06/subversion-commits-mail-activity-stream-icalendar/

• maildir++2kmail.py

  Import a Maildir++ directory and its subfolders to Kmail.

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2007/11/how-to-import-a-maildir-folder-to-kmail/

• mail_ingestor.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2012/09/mail-ingestor-py-ingest-raw-text-files-produce-mailbox/

• mass-replace.py

• mechanize-playground.py

• mldonkey-auto-download.sh

  Combined with a cron entry, this script scan a given folder and auto start downloading torrent files found in that folder. Based on mldonkey and wget.

• monthly-internet-uptime.py

  Monitor how long my backup Dial-up modem is up per month.

• osdir-slideshow.py

  Get a series of screenshots from well-known OSdir slideshows.

• phorum_anon2user.php

  Let you assign an owner to an anonymous post in Phorum.

• phorum_bodies_update.php

  Convert old message format to new format (with the conversion of HTML tags to Phorum specific tags).

• phorum_to_e107.php

  Migrate Phorum 3.x datas to a new empty e107 website. The destination e107 platform must be empty because this script copy Phorum id and don’t re-index database records.

• phorum-to-wordpress.py

• process-monitoring.py

  Combined with cron, helps keep an eye on a running process.

• qlc-effects-generator.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/08/qlc-effects-generator-led-panels/

• svn2ical.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/06/subversion-commits-mail-activity-stream-icalendar/

• system-backup.py

  Automate system backups thanks to rdiff-backup and rsync. It is based on an idea from the "Backup up on unreliable link" article from the official rdiff-backup wiki.

• website-backup.py

  Automate the mirroring of several external websites (both files and MySQL databases) thanks to lftp, mysqldump, ssh and rsync. Then it make an incremental backup each day thanks to rdiff-backup and finally a snapshot each month. Here is the list of latest changes and detailed features.

• xwd2png.py

  Convert .xwd images taken with xvidcap to a series of .png images. I wrote this because mencoder can’t read xwd files.

• zenphoto-to-wordpress.py

  More details at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2012/09/zenphoto-wordpress-migration/

• maildir-deduplicate.py

  Moved to its own repository.

• ubuntu-install.sh & osx-install.sh

  Moved to a dedicated repository.

Unless otherwise noted, code in this repository is distributed under a GNU GPL2+ licence.

All the code here is provided as is and with no guarentee - back up your data first, I am not responsible for anything bad that happens to you as a result of using my hacks.

Kevin Deldycke. Find me at http://kevin.deldycke.com .