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You can get the version for 64-bit Windows, or if you install Adobe Reader you’ll get it for 32-bit Windows.
This isn’t currently working because of changes to Apple’s site. I hope to fix it before the end of the year.
I wanted all the movie trailers from Apple in the highest resolution available (1080p for most of them), so I wrote this script in python to fetch them all.
Update: I wasn’t very clear about this before. ATD keeps a database of what it’s already downloaded, so each time you run it, it will just download everything you haven’t downloaded yet.
This works through the command line in a very simple manner.
I’ll start out with some examples and then provide a full option list.
The following example will download 500 megabytes worth of trailers and save them to C:\Trailers.
atd -l 500 -d "C:\Trailers"
The next example will do the same and also append “-trailer” to the filename and change the extension to “.hdmov”.
atd -l 500 -d "C:\Trailers" -a "-trailer" -e "hdmov"
If there is a certain trailer you would like atd to download again (say you deleted the trailer on accident), you can call it as follows. The one downside to this method is that all this does is tell ATD to not skip this trailer when processing the trailer list. If it doesn’t make it to the movie because you’ve used the download limit option it won’t download it again. Changing this behavior is on my todo list.
atd --redown "Iron Man 2"
If you want the maximum resolution it downloads to be 480p you do it like so:
atd --respref "480p"
To get help you do this:
atd -h
Which will ouput:
Usage: atd [options]
If no options passed, it will download all not already downloaded trailers to a
subdir called Trailers.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l MB, --downlimit=MB
Approxmiate megabytes to download per session
(default: 0)
-d DIR, --dest=DIR Destination directory. (default: Trailers)
-a TEXT, --append=TEXT
Appends the specified text to the filename. (default:
-trailer)
-r, --rename Rename trailer with movies name.
-e EXTENSION, --ext=EXTENSION
Changes file extension to what is specified
--redown=movie name Redownloads the trailer for the specified movie. Ex:
--redown Iron Man 2
--flush WARNING: This option deletes your download history
which means that all trailers will be downloaded again
--respref=RESPREF Get specified resolution or less. Options are
['1080p', '720p', '480p', '640w', '480']
--reslimit=RESLIMIT Get specified resolution or dont get trailer at all
--mdate=DATE Only get trailers for movies with a release date after
this. (format: YYYY-MM-DD)
--tdate=DATE Only get trailers released after this date. (format:
YYYY-MM-DD)
--fake Don't download, just print list of movies it would
download trailers for with the specified commandline.
(Ignores download limit)
--htenfo Writes an nfo file for use with the Home Theater
Experience XBMC script.
--imdb Fetches missing information like MPAA rating from
IMDB. (Slows down parsing)
Please report any bugs or feature requests you may have. This script is dependent upon how Apple presents it’s trailers on the web. If they change the correct (or incorrect depending on how you look at it) things this script will break. I’ll do my best to keep up with such changes.
Version 0.2.2 is here.
ATD is now on github.
Version 0.2.1 is here.
Version 0.2 for Windows users is here.
Version 0.2 for Linux users or users interested in the source can get it here.
Version 0.1 for Windows users is here.
Version 0.1 for Linux users or users interested in the source can get the source code here.
With this feature, ATD will be able to keep a folder full of only trailers for movies past a certain date (for example, only trailers for movies that haven’t been released yet). It will remove trailers for movies before the date and add/dl trailers for movies with new trailers.
--imdb, ATD fetches info for all trailers even if because of other options like --downlimit we’ve limited the number of trailers that will download.--redown.Again, Yudkowsky writes:
The second virtue is relinquishment. P. C. Hodgell said: “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is hot, and it is cool, the Way opposes your fear. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is cool, and it is hot, the Way opposes your calm. Evaluate your beliefs first and then arrive at your emotions. Let yourself say: “If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.” Beware lest you become attached to beliefs you may not want.
I like that P.C. Hodgell quote: “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” Your beliefs should hang upon the truth, truth doesn’t care about your beliefs. Of course, this isn’t the way the human brain works. When we’re comfortable with an idea, or if something we believe engenders positive emotions, we’re more likely to avoid facts that contradict our beliefs.
If you want to have an accurate view of the world around you, you’ve got to cultivate a willingness to give up things you believe, no matter how painful.
I know many who will find this idea foreign. Others will play lip service to the idea. Few will understand just how deep a change we have to make to implement the idea of being willing to relinquish our beliefs. It’s not comfortable. It hurts. Relinquishing cherished beliefs is anathema to the soul if you haven’t made it into something you enjoy. The default human position is to cherish beliefs, not to cherish truth. It require effort to reverse that.
One of the worst methods of practicing non-relinquishment is cherry-picking of facts to support a belief. It’s easy to “prove” anything you desire if you only accept facts in support of your belief. An important thing to remember in this circumstance is that most of the time, when cherry-picking of the facts is going on, the picker doesn’t think they’re doing it. It’s so easy for your brain to utterly dismiss things that don’t fit in to your worldview, that it doesn’t even seem like you’re making a mistake.
Unfortunately, you are.