directory2rss is a small tool that generates an RSS feed from Apache and nginx index pages to notify about changes. It sets up a small webserver that takes the target URL as parameter and returns the generated RSS feed.

This software has no security measurements and no access control. It behaves similary to a proxy to everyone that is able to access it. Do not use it in a public unsecured environment. Only use run it on a trusted machine in a trusted network (which mostly only applies to localhost). Also TLS certificates of the target are not checked.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Look up the code.

To start, run ./d2rss.py.

To add a feed to your preferred feed reader add:

http://localhost:5000/?url=<directory url>[&noverify=yes]

If noverify is added and set to yes HTTPS connections will not be verified.

To read a feed of https://example.com/some_directory just add http://localhost:5000/?url=https://example.com/some_directory to your feed reader.

directory2download is a tool that uses similar mechanisms as directory2rss to read Apache and Nginx index pages to provide an automatic download tool for their contents. It prints all links it finds to stdout to be used with other tools.

usage: d2dl.py [-h] [--recursive] [--noverify] [--quote] [--curl]
               [--match MATCH]
               URL

• -h help
• --recursive go down directories recursively
• --noverify don't verify HTTPS certificates
• --quote print urls in quote for shell use
• --curl call curl on each url if it is a file
• --match only use urls that match a given regular expression, the expression must match the whole link including hostname and protocol