Rescanning

[Anonymous]

Hi

Does anyone knoe if there is a way to force firefly to rescan the database without going through the web interface or waiting for firefly to do so itself? (perhaps that could be run as a scheduled task or as a command from another program)?

Thanks

[fizze]

Yes.
In Linux and Windows it is as simple as using the “wget” program. You just have to have it access to the rescan-button of the webinterface.

You can schedul that call by any means you like.
The exact syntax can be found in this very forums.

[Anonymous]

Hmm – the problem I have with this is that the button isn’t attached to a URL, it runs the following java function…

new Ajax.Request(‘xml-rpc’,{method:’post’,parameters: ‘method=rescan’,onComplete: Updater.rsStartScan});

My attempts to convert this to a URL have lead me to variances of

http://localhost:9999/xlm-rpc&method=rescan

but none of these actually force the server to rescan.

[rpedde]

@macpanda wrote:

Hmm – the problem I have with this is that the button isn’t attached to a URL, it runs the following java function…

new Ajax.Request(‘xml-rpc’,{method:’post’,parameters: ‘method=rescan’,onComplete: Updater.rsStartScan});

My attempts to convert this to a URL have lead me to variances of

http://localhost:9999/xlm-rpc&method=rescan

but none of these actually force the server to rescan.

That should be:

http://localhost:9999/xml-rpc?method=rescan

(or, for a full rescan)

http://localhost:9999/xml-rpc?method=rescan&full=1

If you are doing it from a remote system, you may need to use username and password as well:

http://user:password@localhost:9999?xml-rpc?method=rescan

— Ron

[dovad]

I’ve replaced “localhost” with the ip address as I am trying to start the scan from a remote host. Should I see the scan running on the web interface when I run the url?

Thanks…
Dave

[dovad]

Ron,

I believe you made a small typo in the last example:

http://user:password@localhost:9999?xml-rpc?method=rescan

It should be:

http://user:password@localhost:9999/xml-rpc?method=rescan

A little thing, a question mark where a slash should be.

When I type this into the terminal on my Mac I get the error:

“No such file or directory”

It does work however from the address bar of a web browser. Is there a way to run a rescan from the terminal of a computer other than the one hosting Firefly?

Dave

[EVILRipper]

Yes. The same URL. Just replace “localhost” with the computer’s IP.
Which is probably:
Local: 192.168.1.xxx

[fizze]

*cough*
You have to use wget with that URL 😉

[dovad]

Ah, see all that I learn from hanging out with you guys!

OS X Leopard does not have wget installed by default. Now I’m installing MacPorts and Xcode to be able to install wget. What a story!

Thanks again…
Dave

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