newsbinpro-client 1.0.2

A client for the Newsbin Pro Usenet Downloader

This is an asyncio Python library to communicate with the Newsbin Pro Remote Control interface.

It implements all of Remote Control Version 6.10 Interface Spec.

Installation

pip install newsbinpro_client

Documentation

The full library documentation can be found here.

Getting started

In order to activate the remote control interface, go to Options - Settings, select _Remote Control in the left menu, and check Enable Remote Control. You can optionally set a password and change the port. Then click OK to save. If you have a firewall active in your machine, you need to open the TCP port for access.

Check out the instructions on github.com/jonnybergdahl/Python-Newsbinpro-client. You will find a sample script that show how it is used.

Sample use

The following code connects to Newsbin Pro and prints out the version number and basic statistics.

import asyncio

from newsbinpro_client import NewsbinProClient

HOST = "172.30.1.60"
PORT = 118
PASSWORD = "password"

async def main(host: str, port: int, password: str) -> None:

    # Create a client instance
    client = NewsbinProClient(host,
                              port,
                              password)

    print(f"Connecting to {host}:{port}")
    await client.connect()
    print(f"Newsbin Pro version        : {client.newsbin_version}")
    status = await client.get_status()
    print(f"Current speed              : {status.speed}")
    print(f"Data folder free space     : {status.data_folder_free_space_str}")
    print(f"Download folder free space : {status.download_folder_free_space_str}")

    await client.disconnect()
if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main(HOST, PORT, PASSWORD))

Output:

Newsbin Pro version        : Newsbin Server 6.91RC2
Current speed              : 64702260
Data folder free space     : 944.83 GB
Download folder free space : 944.83 GB