GoPostStuff is a simple client for posting binaries to Usenet, written in Go. If you've seen/used [newsmangler] 1, imagine that but faster (and maybe better one day).
- Multiple server support with multiple connections per server.
- Native TLS support so you don't need to use stunnel or equivalent frippery.
- Fast: a basic Linode VPS can push 250Mbit of TLS-encrypted data while using 50-60% of a single CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz).
- A working [Go installation] 2
- A Usenet server that allows posting
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Initalise a directory to store Go files:
mkdir ~/go export GOPATH="~/go" -
Get and install GoPostStuff - this will make a ~/go/bin/gopoststuff binary:
go get github.com/izolight/gopoststuff go install github.com/izolight/gopoststuff -
Copy sample.conf to ~/.gopoststuff.conf and edit the options as appropriate.
cp sample.conf ~/.gopoststuff.conf vi ~/.gopoststuff.conf -
Run gopoststuff!
gopoststuff [-c "CONFIG"] [-d] [-g "GROUP"] [-s "SUBJECT"] [-v] file1 file2 ... fileN
- -c "CONFIG": Use an alternate configuration file.
- -d: Use directory posting mode. Each fileN argument must be a directory. All files in each directory will be posted using the directory name as the subject.
- -g "GROUP": Post to GROUP instead of the global/DefaultGroup config option.
- -s "SUBJECT": Use subject posting mode. All files will be posted using SUBJECT as the subject. Directories supplied as arguments are always recursed into.
- -v: Verbose mode. This will spam a lot of extra debug information.
- -version: prints the current gps version.
- -nzb "test.nzb": Create nzb file after posting.
- -pass "PASSWORD": Add password for rar archives to nzb head.
- -server "SERVER": Use specified server to post.
Let's say you have some files that you would like to post:
- Cool Files/
- cool.rar
- cool.r00
- cool.r01
- cool.sfv
You can post it with the subject "Cool Files" like so:
gopoststuff -d "Cool Files"
or with a different subject like so:
gopoststuff -s "This is a different subject" "Cool Files"