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| − | |purpose=Download legacy file formats | + | |purpose=Download legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive and Warclight services |
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|homepage=https://github.com/exponential-decay/moonshine | |homepage=https://github.com/exponential-decay/moonshine | ||
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== Description == | == Description == | ||
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| − | Download sample legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive Shine service based on a file's first four bytes (FFB). | + | Download sample legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive Shine service, and Archives Unleashed's Warclight based on a file's first four bytes (FFB). |
| − | Shine's public interface enables searching for sample files using a file's first four-bytes, if | + | Shine's public interface enables searching for sample files using a file's first four-bytes, if you know what you might want to look for. This utility uses the same Shine based GET request to build a set of files to download, or return a single example, which can then be requested using '''wget'''. Examples are provided in the tool's [https://github.com/exponential-decay/moonshine/blob/master/README.md README.md]. [https://github.com/exponential-decay/moonshine/releases Releases] are available in all major platform. Issues and pull-requests to improve its stability are welcome. Please use responsibly and don't needlessly poll any implementation of the Shine service! |
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| + | The ideal use of moonlight is to build a greater number of sample files from a more varied range of sources for submission alongside a file format signature. This is to improve the ability to verify an identification pattern's efficacy. | ||
== User Experiences == | == User Experiences == | ||
Revision as of 13:31, 7 November 2019
Description
Download sample legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive Shine service, and Archives Unleashed's Warclight based on a file's first four bytes (FFB).
Shine's public interface enables searching for sample files using a file's first four-bytes, if you know what you might want to look for. This utility uses the same Shine based GET request to build a set of files to download, or return a single example, which can then be requested using wget. Examples are provided in the tool's README.md. Releases are available in all major platform. Issues and pull-requests to improve its stability are welcome. Please use responsibly and don't needlessly poll any implementation of the Shine service!
The ideal use of moonlight is to build a greater number of sample files from a more varied range of sources for submission alongside a file format signature. This is to improve the ability to verify an identification pattern's efficacy.
User Experiences
There are no user experiences at present.
Development Activity
All development activity is visible on GitHub: https://github.com/exponential-decay/moonshine/commits
Release Feed
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- 2023-09-08 13:21:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/125165267/v2.0.0 v2.0.0]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 2023-07-15 16:18:18
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/125165267/v1.0.0 v1.0.0]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 2018-08-18 23:28:17
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/125165267/0.0.5 moonshine-0.0.5]
- by ross-spencer
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