PDF documents

The bot also uploads PDF documents (the edicola category: magazines, comics, books…): it extracts the cover from the first page and puts it in the torrent description.

Requirement: Poppler

Cover extraction uses pdftocairo (Poppler):

• Windows: Poppler installation
• Linux: sudo apt install poppler-utils

Verify:

pdftocairo -v

Upload

Same as for videos:

unit3dup -u "/path/magazine.pdf"
unit3dup -scan "/path/magazines/folder"

What the bot does:

1. Recognizes the PDF and creates a Document object
2. Converts the first page to PNG with pdftocairo
3. Uploads the cover to the image host and adds it to the description
4. Creates the torrent, uploads it, starts seeding

If the category isn't recognized from the file name, force it:

unit3dup -force edicola -u "/path/file.pdf"

Document object properties

name, tmdb, category_id, anonymous, description, type_id, resolution_id, personal_release — same as videos, but tmdb and resolution_id are set to neutral values: the tracker requires them even when they make no sense for a document.