download_startdict_libraries.py

# LICENCE: GPLv3
# download all the startdict dictionaries into proper directory on linux
# requirements:
#     1) lxml library for python
#     2) wget program on linux
#     3) /usr/share/stardict/dic folder must exist
# currently this works on linux only, but is a good starting point
# i am only interested in the `url`, and any other stardict dictionaries are of no interest to me
# there is no error handling what so ever, it's a quick and dirty solution.

import urllib2
import os
from lxml import html

url = "http://yeelou.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/dict.org/"

dicts = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

dicts_html = html.fromstring(dicts)

for each in dicts_html.iterlinks():
    if each[2].endswith("bz2"):
        os.system("wget %s -O - | tar xj -C /usr/share/stardict/dic/" % (url + each[2]))