BearShare Pro Functions

[Prophet]

If been working on automating searching and downloading in BearShare Pro. I seem to have all the bugs worked out of it. So i thought i'd share the functions with you all

[Edit]

Made a update

Functions now got more appropiate names like BSSearch.

Added a lot of agruments for the BSSearch function.

Functions now return value for succes and errors

all in all im not displeased with my first autoit script

[Edit]

BS_Func.au3

Edited May 27, 2008 by Prophet

[Confuzzled]

How do you cope with the many, many spam results that are usually returned?

[Prophet]

It doensn't yet, Im working on a filtered search, wich will exclude known spam words. But its not fullproof at this point.

I dont get that many spam results on my searches though, so its not realy a problem for me.

[ACS]

Isn't BearShare full of spyware/malware? Or is that just the non-Pro version?

[Prophet]

The Pro versions dont have spyware. But they dont make/support them anymore. They changed owners or something and a lot changed over the last year. I'm not even sure if the new BearShare still uses Gnutella

[dnix]

I really think I remember reading that BearShare was a front for some orgs trying to catch pirates.

[Prophet]

LoL when did you read that? Would that be the old BearShare or the new?

[Confuzzled]

This thread appears to be full of misinformation. The old BearShare (before the RIAA lackeys got to it) is still alive and well. Have a look at www.technutopia.com for stable versions without any addon-ware (not spy-ware or mal-ware), and how to run it under Vista.

From what I read, a properly configured installation with the appropriate updated filters should work well without any assistance from scripting searches, unless you are running a very old unstable version of BearShare.

Of course, running the latest version from the RIAA/MPAA stable is inviting repercussions if you are trying to share/download copyright content for which you do not have permission to share.