[Feature Request] Ability to pause current rip

[ripmeapp]

[Feature Request] Ability to pause current rip

Yeah I didn't mean pause the current one and have another start. I meant like actual pause, and when you press "start" it would continue from where it left off.

[metaprime]

I think adding pausing would be easy to do. I think that this would pause all ripping -- it would be a bit harder to pause one and have another start.

[rautamiekka]

^ I think he meant pause all anyway.

A way to have multiple rips running and pause any of them:

1. the GUI is expanded to show each thread/rip with its status, pause/resume and stop buttons. Without this, being certain of which thread you order to pause/resume or stop will be hard to predict. You can take example of what the GUI could look like from https://www.httrack.com when it's ripping (or mirroring, whichever term is appropriate (I have no idea)) a website.
2. each thread/rip is kept in a variable which has various data on it, like its status (what it's doing and whether it's running or paused, and if wanted/needed/..., whether it's been set to stop (the 'stop' status would be needed if the stopped threads/rips aren't deleted as they come (then they wouldn't need a separate 'stopped' status), but garbage-collected in intervals)).

[metaprime]

Yeah, I've thought about that kind of interface improvement. Especially when you consider that if you queue up a bunch of sites and many rippers delay a lot just because of rate limiting (which is specific to one site at a time), you realize that you could be running multiple rips (as long as they are different domains) at the same time. Ripme doesn't really have an interface for that.

[metaprime]

I think that would constitute a new issue.