A tool written in Python meant to help get rid of old downloads without running the risk of losing data that you need. download-sweeper's primary goal is to save the user precious disk space.
download-sweeper is modifiable via commandline args or a YAML configuration file. Further, it integrates with systemd so that download cleanup can be performed automatically.
By default, download-sweeper has the following dependencies:
- Python
- PyYAML
To install and run download-sweeper, do the following:
git clone https://github.com/brandonio21/download-sweeper
python download_sweeper.py
download-sweeper is also available in the
AUR
To enable the timer:
cp download-sweeper.service /usr/lib/systemd/user
cp download-sweeper.timer /usr/lib/systemd/user
systemctl --user enable download-sweeper.timer
systemctl --user start download-sweeper.timer
Note that by default the timer will run everyday and on system start.
download-sweeper considers downloads to be organized in three tiers:
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The Download Tier: Files that are freshly downloaded or accessed repeatedly from their downloaded location.
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The Archive Tier : Files that were downloaded long ago and not recently accessed but still may be accessed in the future. By default, these files are compressed.
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The Purge Tier : These files are ready to be deleted and are are considered to be never used.
download-sweeper is meant to be extremely flexible and allow the user to deal with any sort of data-redundance that they want to take place. Thus, the user can easily edit the YAML configuration file (even while download-sweeper is running) to add download, archive, or purge directories. The user may also edit the time limits that differentiate between tiers and disable certain tier operations.
For instance, a user could choose to move all downloads into the compressed archive tier without deleting the files.
A user could also declare multiple directories as archive directories, meaning that download-sweeper will automatically compress any uncompressed files and remove them when they become stale.
A user could also declare several directories as download directories (Downloads, "My Received Files", etc.) that will operate the same way within the download-sweeper pipeline.
As a development philosophy, download-sweeper will be able to read all settings found within the configuraiton file as commandline arguments, meaning that it can be run without access to a configuration file.
download-sweeper is primarily meant to be run on system startup, thus, some pre-made systemd files are provided in the repo.