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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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).

Problem found, will be solved in the next release.

Thanks shypike

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.

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.