Is a python based f-droid mirror generation and update utility. Point at one or more existing f-droid repositories and the utility will download the metadata (pictures, descriptions,..) for you and place it in your local system. Simply run fdroid-dl && fdroid update and you are set.
The idea is to have an no internet local copy of one or more repositories, without the need to compile the thousands of apps on your own build server but rather download them like the android client does. So this tool came into existence to simply download a whole repository and import the apps into your own locally installed one. At the time of writing a full offline copy including assets is ~7.5GB of the official repository of f-droid.org.
fdroid-dl is available via pip, simply run pip install fdroid-dl and you can use fdroid-dl on your command line. pypi.org - fdroid-dl
Can be found at fdroid-dl.readthedocs.io
Usage: fdroid-dl [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Is a python based f-droid mirror generation and update utility. Point at
one or more existing f-droid repositories and the utility will download
the metadata (pictures, descriptions,..) for you and place it in your
local system.
Simply run "fdroid-dl update && fdroid update" in your folder with repo
and you are set.
Options:
-d, --debug enable debug level logging
-c, --config FILE location of your fdroid-dl.json configuration file
[default: fdroid-dl.json]
-r, --repo DIRECTORY location of your fdroid repository to store the
apk files [default: ./repo]
-m, --metadata DIRECTORY location of your fdroid metadata to store the
asset files [default: ./metadata]
--cache DIRECTORY location for fdroid-dl to store cached data
[default: ./.cache]
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
update starts updating process
Usage: fdroid-dl update [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--index / --no-index download repository index files [default: True]
--metadata / --no-metadata download metadata assset files [default: True]
--apk / --no-apk download apk files [default: True]
--apk-versions INTEGER how many versions of apk to download [default:
1]
--src / --no-src download src files [default: True]
--threads INTEGER configure number of parallel threads used for
download [default: 10]
--head-timeout INTEGER maximum time in seconds a HEAD request is
allowed to take [default: 10]
--index-timeout INTEGER maximum time in seconds index file download is
allowed to take [default: 60]
--download-timeout INTEGER maximum time in seconds file download is allowed
to take [default: 60]
--help Show this message and exit.
fdroid update does this already?)# git clone https://github.com/t4skforce/fdroid-dl.git
# cd fdroid-dl
# virtualenv .env
# source .env/bin/activate
# python setup.py install
# fdroid-dl --help
# python3 -m fdroid_dl --help
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fdroid-dl is a f-droid (offline) mirror generation and update utility
We found that fdroid-dl demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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