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Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 3:16 am**

Hey all,

Ive looked through the sabnzbd configuration and googled but I cant seem to find a answer - Is it possible to move/delete failed downloads?

In the sabnzbd webui there is a option to 'Purge failed nzb's and delete files' , is there anyway to run this after every download? Ive checked the log file after using the 'Purge failed nzb's and delete files' command to see if I could see any hints of how to acheive my goal but nothing was shown in the log file.

Any suggestions? Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 4:01 am**

If you really want it:

SABnzbd's API offers options to remove failed downloads. See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/api#toc41

So you can trigger that from a curl one-liner. I tried this one:

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curl -v 'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=history&name=delete&value=all&failed_only=1'

... but that deleted my whole history, not only failed one ... :-(

And this one didn't work either:

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sander@R540:~$ curl  'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=history&name=delete&failed_only=1'
error: expect one parameter
sander@R540:~$

So some experimenting is necessary.
As soon as you have the correct curl one-liner, you can put it in a post-processing script for the default category. Or you can put in a crontab entry so that it is run each x minutes.

HTH

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 8:13 am**

Thanks for your help and prompt reply sander - I now have a point to start my journey from

Time to do some reading.

Quick question, is there anyway to fail downloads on purpose? This would make testing alot easier.

Thanks again sander.

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 8:24 am**

teeedubb wrote: Quick question, is there anyway to fail downloads on purpose? This would make testing alot easier.

That's easy: just set the job's priority to "Stop" after the first few files are in.

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 8:30 am**

Thanks shypike, gonna give it a go now.

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 9:39 am**

This command:

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 curl -v 'http://localhost:8085/api?mode=history&name=delete&value=all&failed_only=1&del_files=1'

seems to delete the whole history, but will only delete the files of failed downloads. I tried a few variations but I was unable to clear only the failed history while leaving the completed history in place, but Im happy to have the the failed downloads deleted automatically.

Thanks for the help guys.

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 10:53 am**

So same experience as I have. Hopefully Shypike can shine some light on this ...

Posted: **February 10th, 2013, 11:26 pm**

I'm thinking the '&value=all' parameter is the key here, but I'm no expert. I tried replacing 'all' with 'failed_only' to no avail. I just had the idea to use 'failed'. I doubt it will work but its worth a shot. Googling this topic or the parameters I'm using isn't giving me much info.

Posted: **February 11th, 2013, 6:11 am**

It's on my to-check list, but you'll have to have some patience.

Posted: **February 11th, 2013, 7:34 am**

Thanks shypike.

While googling 'sabnzbd check api command' I can across another one of your posts which is related to this topic. (Isn't it weird that when I Google something unrelated I find what I'm after...)

http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php ... 44&p=77051

So it looks like the value option does need to be set to 'failed' and not failed_only and the failed_only option needs to be omitted.(apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology)

I'll test when I get home.

Thanks again.

Posted: **February 11th, 2013, 11:27 am**

The command

curl -v 'http://localhost:8085/api?mode=history& ... el_files=1'

as per the link in the above post works. It only deletes failed history + files, leaving complete history + files alone.

Time to celebrate

Posted: **February 11th, 2013, 12:05 pm**

teeedubb wrote:The command

curl -v 'http://localhost:8085/api?mode=history& ... el_files=1'

as per the link in the above post works. It only deletes failed history + files, leaving complete history + files alone.

Time to celebrate

Cool; it works for me too.

Posted: **February 11th, 2013, 3:40 pm**

That's the right way.
The documentation is incorrect and I'll change it.
Also, this function is rather weird in its details, but we cannot change without breaking existing tools.

Posted: **February 16th, 2014, 4:17 am**

When I execute that command this is what I get:

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# curl -v 'http://localhost:8080/api=myapikey?mode=history&name=delete&value=failed&del_files=1'

* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying ::1...
* Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0)
> GET /api=myapikey?mode=history&name=delete&value=failed&del_files=1 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:10:33 GMT
< Content-Length: 513
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
* Server CherryPy/3.2.0 is not blacklisted
< Server: CherryPy/3.2.0
<

<html>
    <head>
      <script type="text/javascript">
      <!--
      location.href = "http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd"
      //-->
      </script>
    </head>
    <body><br/></body>
</html>
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

I am running arch and installed this package 'aur/sabnzbd 0.7.16-1' .
Any ideas?

Posted: **February 17th, 2014, 6:22 am**

You're using the wrong URL, it should be:
curl -v 'http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?apike ... el_files=1'

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