JD-backup

Description

JD-backup is an advanced Python script, that will extract all links from a jDownloader 2 file list and export them to a text file.

Thanks to

hherglotz for an idea and his source code, which I used as the base of my project.

What JD-backup does

• Firstly, after executing the script, it will detect, which OS you are using for setting the JDownloader Installation Directory PATH.
• Secondly, the script will sort all downloadListXXX.zip files in the JDownloader config dir by date and the recent file will copy and extract to a temporary created folder temp.
• Next, it will extract links from all the files in temp and saves them to my_jd_links.txt file in the JD-backup directory.
• Finally, the script will delete the temp folder.

Note: No matters where is the script running from.

Prerequisites

Default Installation PATH of JDownloader If you haven't installed Python on your system yet, get it directly at (https://www.python.org/). JD-backup uses libraries os, platform, glob, shutil, zipfile and json.

Tests:

JD-backup has already been tested on Windows 7, Mac OS Big Sur and Debian Buster with Python 3.8 version. I haven't found any differencies during a backup, either JDownloader 2 was running or not.

Installation

No special installation is needed.

Run the program

1. Open a terminal:

• On Windows by pressing WinKey + R and then type cmd and Enter.
• On Mac OS by pressing Control + Backspace then type terminal and press Enter.
• On Linux by pressing Control + Alt + T.

2. Navigate to the JD-backup-main directory.

3. Then run the script by the command python3 get-jd-links.py.

4. Once it's done, you will find a new file called my_jd_links.txt in the JD-backup-main directory.

Note: If you run the script again, the my_jd_links.txt file will be overwritten.

Recovery

Just run jDownloader 2, open my_jd_links.txt file, sellect all Control + A then copy Control + C and JDownloader will import all copied links by its self.