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i am trying to write a script to shutdown sabnzbd if it isnt doing anything but i cant find much documentation on what the xml api attributes do. i figured out how to work with the queue but is there one for something like jobs? i can tell it to shutdown if the queue is empty but i would also need a way to interface with sabnzbd to see if it is doing any other processing such as extracting, repairing, running post-processing scripts, etc. is this possible?

It is a bit complicated, but you would need the "history" api call to determine the state of the post-processing queue. Any history item that has a "loaded" attribute with value "true", is either waiting or being processed.

I'll see if I can add a simple status variable to the "qstatus" call.
But that won't help you until the next release.

A solution will be in 0.7.4
The qstatus call will have a new variable "pp_active".
This combination will indicate idle mode:

wow, that is awesome. thanks so much.

so, just to make sure i understand this correctly, anytime there is a "loaded" attribute in the history api with a value of "true", then it is busy doing something?

Yes, although there could be exceptional situations.
But generally, yes.