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Raspberry Pi Download Machine Part 1

Yet Another Raspberry Pi Project Kodi builds, weird fucking robots and classic gaming always seems to be the theme of RPi projects. But a stat I would like to know is how many are just sat in a drawer somewhere. Anyway I am part of that number, until now. I manage to find a 4TB drive and managed to blag a caddy, so with this triangle of 'crap hanging around' I thought I'd build a downloader. Open Directories So I first had the idea from the sub-reddit open directories , here storage devices are opened up to the internet without a morsel of authentication. Google comes along and indexes them and you can go and find them. Decent ones find themselves on this sub of which I assume stays up until the user realises that there broadband is getting absolutely raped. So I wanted to be able to get a URL from a server and just throw it in a WebUI and get it to auto download and ping me when all is finished.  First Steps So to start off I downloaded Raspbian