[Feature Request]: Guest View

[XiS]

Heya,

I would love a Guest View of the webinterface. So I can show others what I am downloading (without others messing with my settings) and how long it is going to take before things are in.


Greetings,

XiS

[shypike]

We do not support multiple users.

However, there is a poor man's lock.
If you set config_lock=1 in the sabnzbd.ini file, nobody will be able to change config settings.
But people can add jobs and change the queue.

[deedwar]

It is a shame you don't seem to have plans to implement this shypike, it is definitely one of the features i have been longing for.  I would like to add the webinterface to my webserver so that friends can see what i have downloaded and stop asking me to get things for them but i don't want them to have to log in and have the opportunity to "accidentally" mess up my downloads.

[shypike]

Given the size of the wish-list we have to make choices.
We don't exactly have unlimited resources and this a very expensive feature to implement.

[markus101]

It would also be possible to Output the Queue to JSON or XML and then have that displayed on another webserver, again not a perfect solution, but it could solve this issue for you.

http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/automation-support

You could even script it to output the queue every so often so it would update for your friends...on completion of an item have a default script run.

[deedwar]

I understand shypike that you can't please everyone and that you have finite resources.  Still a shame never less.  

Thanks markus101 for the suggestion.  I will see what I can figure out.  

EDIT:
I figured out how to get it to display the queue thanks for that (scrapping it for the info i want is another problem but shouldnt be hard to figure out).  Is there a way i can get it to display my history.  Like only 20 or so items?

[inpheaux]

In 0.4 there's the RSS and that's it.

In 0.5 it's pretty trivial to use The API to create a live read-only queue/history view.

[deedwar]

Thanks for that inpheaux i am using the latest trunk so from the link you gave me i should be right to get it working.  Thanks again.

EDIT:
I get an error when i do "mode=history&output=xml"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cherrypy\_cprequest.pyo", line 618, in respond
  File "cherrypy\_cpdispatch.pyo", line 25, in __call__
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 480, in api
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 719, in api_handler
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 302, in report
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3268, in run
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3241, in _dict
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3270, in run
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3251, in _list
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3241, in _dict
  File "sabnzbd\interface.pyo", line 3274, in run
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x96' in position 45: ordinal not in range(128)

But when i use "mode=history&output=json" it works.  Mind you my history is HUGE

[shypike]

We still have some issues with accented characters in some places.
The next release will have some more fixes, but it looks like there are a few misses.

The json output is not affected by this, because it doesn't need to convert character sets.

I'll look into it.

BTW: If you page through your whole history in the UI, do you get a crash too?

Which revision were you using?
(It matters, because otherwise the line numbers are useless).

[shypike]

Problem found, will be solved in the next release.

[deedwar]

Thanks shypike

[MoeenD]

I agree, this feature would be awesome as I host a server for people, and they would also like to view the queue list and find out when their requests are done downloading.

[Cladmonitor]

I came here with the intent to make that exact suggestion as its come up several times that I want to show off the UI but cant as to giving away sensitive access.

+1 for me here.