Installation

Before you start using easy-extract, you must install these softwares :

• unrar-free
• 7zip-full
• par2

Then use easy_install

$> easy_install easy-extract

Usage

Usage: easy_extract [options] [directory]...

Options:

--version	show program's version number and exit
-h, --help	show this help message and exit
-f, --force	Do not prompt confirmation message
-n, --not-repair
	Do not try to repair archives on errors
-r, --recursive
	Find archives recursively

Simply run easy_extract in the directory where the collections are.

$> easy_extract

or for finding archives recursivly in a directory.

$> easy_extract -r my_archives/

All the archives found will be prompted, then confirm the extraction. Go make a coffee, the script will do the rest ! Easy_extract will handle the repair if the archives are corrupted.

Code

If you want to reuse the code to find archives you can do something like that :

>>> from easy_extract.archive_finder import ArchiveFinder
>>> from easy_extract.archives.rar import RarArchive
>>>
>>> archive_finder = ArchiveFinder('./my_path/', recursive=True, archive_classes=[RarArchive,])
>>> archive_finder.archives
... [<easy_extract.archives.rar.RarArchive object at 0x...>, <easy_extract.archives.rar.RarArchive object at 0x...>]