Pauze sabnzbd from commandline?

[beukie]

I was wondering if it was possible to pause sabnzbd from the commandline on linux?

The reason I ask is because I use a lot of rssfeeds for downloading and I like playing ps3, downloading and playing online games don't really match so i made a script that pings my ps3 to see if it runs and if so it stops sabnzbd (/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd stop), although that works  it would probably be nicer if I could pause downloading instead of stopping sabnzbd altogether, any suggestions?

[shypike]

Use an API call with wget or curl

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curl http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause&apikey=APIKEY

You can find the APIKEY in Config->General

There's some documentation about the API here:
http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/api

[beukie]

Thanks shypike that worked great!

[weybfr]

Use an API call with wget or curl

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curl http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause&apikey=APIKEY

You can find the APIKEY in Config->General

There's some documentation about the API here:
http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/api

hello,

I'm not as lucky as beukie, as i tried many commands & didn't succeed...


I'm a newbie with linux, so I copied what shypike wrote, and I tried :

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>>wget http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause&apikey=<APIKEY>
>> --17:13:16--  http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause
           => `api?mode=pause'
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 24 [text/plain]
api?mode=pause: Permission denied

Cannot write to `api?mode=pause' (Permission denied).

I thought I forgot the /sabnzbd directory, so I tried :

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>> wget http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause&apikey=<APIKEY>
>> --17:13:45--  http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause
           => `api?mode=pause'
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 24 [text/plain]
api?mode=pause: Permission denied

Cannot write to `api?mode=pause' (Permission denied).

I tried to know what is the authentication mode :

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>> wget http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=auth
--17:14:15--  http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=auth
           => `api?mode=auth'
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7 [text/plain]
api?mode=auth: Permission denied

Cannot write to `api?mode=auth' (Permission denied).

so i changed "wget" to "curl" :

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>> curl http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=auth
apikey
>> curl http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause&apikey=<APIKEY>
>> error: API Key Required

>>

so :
- it seems that the authentication mode is "apikey"
- but i can't do anything as if i didn't give the apikey !

and I can't desactivate the api key on the config/general page (it says "failure")

I don't understand what i'm doing wrong...


a huge thank you very much in advance for your help !

kind regards,

[shypike]

Curl works a bit different:

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curl http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api -F apikey=APIKEY -F mode=pause

[sander]

Isn't this about not using single quotes? Examples how to use it:

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sander@flappie:~$ wget 'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause' -o /dev/null -O-
ok
sander@flappie:~$

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sander@flappie:~$ lynx --dump 'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause'
ok

sander@flappie:~$

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sander@flappie:~$ curl 'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause'
ok
sander@flappie:~$

[jcfp]

Without proper quoting, the & would background the process and the remainder of the url (i.e., the api key) no longer send to sab. There would have been indications in the output pointing to all that though, I guess weybfr was posting only very selective parts.

[weybfr]

Isn't this about not using single quotes? Examples how to use it:

...

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sander@flappie:~$ curl 'http://localhost:8080/api?mode=pause'
ok
sander@flappie:~$

hi everyone !

yes it worked with the quotes !
i didn't try the other proposed solutions as this one worked fine for me !

@jcfp : no i didn't post very selective parts of the output, i only hid my apikey...
so ?
i'll try to remember that the "&" would background the process !

thank you very much everybody for your quick help !

kind regrds
weybfr