Download tournament games in one go!

Since there's no function to download all games of a tournament I wrote a little bash script called tournget.sh which should work on any Linux system.

You can download it from

http://pastebin.com/R32G8SaE

If you're not a Linux user you may get a Linux live DVD to start it without the need to touch your running operating system on your computer at all.

Step by Step  Guide (Linux)

1. Download my script from http://pastebin.com/R32G8SaE. For this guide I assume you choose your ~/Download folder. If you use the download function pastebin.com will add the suffix *.sh automatically. 

   Note: If you're worried about downloading any virusses or stuff, no worries, this is only a text files stored at pastebin.com. 

2. Open a Terminal and change directory to ~/Downloads or where ever you've stored the file.

   user@linux:~/$ cd Downloads

3. Get rid of the annoying DOS CRLF line terminators.

   user@linux:~/Downloads$ sed -i 's/\r//' tournget.sh

4. That's it, you may now start the script for trial by

   user@linux:~/Downloads$ bash tournget.sh

5. If you're happy with the script you probably want to make it executable, move it to a better location and link it into a place where it can be found. 

   user@linux:~/Downloads$ chmod a+x tournget.sh
   user@linux:~/Downloads$ mkdir ~/bin
   user@linux:~/Downloads$ mv tournget.sh ~/bin/
   user@linux:~/Downloads$ sudo ln -s ~/bin/tournget.sh /usr/local/bin/tournget

   Now you can invoke the script simply by typing tournget into your shell. The bash completion works as well, of course.

Here's a screenshot I captured using a Linux Mint Xfce Live DVD (available at http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php). This is how it looks like. Simple, but it does it's job.