I like to watch the trailers in the Apple trailers site [1]. I like it a lot, but I do not like to watch them in my browser (and with a 32 bit Firefox running in a 64 bit machine is tricky… not impossible, but tricky). So I wrote a little program in PyGtk to select and download to my desktop the latests Apple trailers. Once the trailers are selected the process is automatic, so I can go and watch them later with Totem or wathever player I prefer, and in fullscreen even.
The “program” (it has three Python files) was hastily written, without thinking in any kind of design, and really early in the moring (or really late at night); however it scratches a very particular itch of mine and I hope it’s useful for someone else. You can download it from here [2], and after decompress it you can run it with python appletrailers.py.
(It’s GPL-3, if somebody cares about it.)
If somebody with more Python experience than me could take a look and make it a little more pretty (that ain’t gonna be difficult), please send patches (or suggestions) to canek@ciencias.unam.mx [3].
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(A mis lectores en español; una disculpa por la entrada en inglés, pero chicle y pega y el “programita” le interesa a alguien más, y en inglés es más fácil que me encuentren con Google).
(Update: fixed a crash with the Kung-Fu Panda trailer; the trailer fails to load, but it doesn’t crash.)
(Update: fixed so now it downloads all the trailers in the site… I think; I’m still downloading.)