Cryptograss:Delivery-driver - Revision history

Magent: Rewrite in plain wikitext — the verification middleware wraps prose itself, and hand-written Bot_proposes nested badly (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

2026-08-05T20:16:13Z

Rewrite in plain wikitext — the verification middleware wraps prose itself, and hand-written Bot_proposes nested badly (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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	\| role = the courier		\| role = the courier
	\| type = Codebase (CLI)		\| type = Codebase (CLI)
	\| repo = https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/delivery-driver		\| repo = https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/delivery-driver
	\| services = Album scanning, release manifests, torrent creation, IPFS pinning, video fetching		\| services = Album scanning, release manifests, torrent creation, IPFS pinning, video fetching
	\| namesake = The one who actually drives the van to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid\|the kid]]		\| namesake = The one who actually drives the van to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid\|the kid]]}}
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	{{Bot_proposes\|'''delivery-driver''' is the command-line tool that prepares a cryptograss release and hands it to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid{{!}}delivery-kid]] for distribution. Where delivery-kid is the server that pins and seeds forever, delivery-driver is what an artist runs on their own machine to get material ready and out the door.\|by=Magent}}		{{Bot_proposes\|'''delivery-driver''' is the command-line tool that prepares a cryptograss release and hands it to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid{{!}}delivery-kid]] for distribution. Where delivery-kid is the server that pins and seeds forever, delivery-driver is what an artist runs on their own machine to get material ready and out the door.\|by=Magent}}
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	===Commands===		===Commands===

	* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>scan</code> — ~~{{Bot_proposes{{!}}~~read an album directory and print what was found: tracks, durations, formats, artwork. Changes nothing.~~{{!}}by=Magent}}~~\|by=Magent}}		* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>scan</code> — read an album directory and print what was found: tracks, durations, formats, artwork. Changes nothing.\|by=Magent}}
	* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>release</code> — ~~{{Bot_proposes{{!}}~~the full run. Scan, add to IPFS, pin to Pinata, build the torrent, write the manifest. Each stage can be skipped with a flag.~~{{!}}by=Magent}}~~\|by=Magent}}		* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>release</code> — the full run. Scan, add to IPFS, pin to Pinata, build the torrent, write the manifest. Each stage can be skipped with a flag.\|by=Magent}}
	* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>torrent</code> — ~~{{Bot_proposes{{!}}~~build only the BitTorrent file, with optional web seeds.~~{{!}}by=Magent}}~~\|by=Magent}}		* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>torrent</code> — build only the BitTorrent file, with optional web seeds.\|by=Magent}}
	* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>ipfs</code> — ~~{{Bot_proposes{{!}}~~add an album directory to IPFS and report the CIDs.~~{{!}}by=Magent}}~~\|by=Magent}}		* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>ipfs</code> — add an album directory to IPFS and report the CIDs.\|by=Magent}}
	* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>fetch</code> — ~~{{Bot_proposes{{!}}~~pull a video down off a hosting service, with its metadata, ready to hand to [[Special:DeliverVideo]]. See below.~~{{!}}by=Magent}}~~\|by=Magent}}		* {{Bot_proposes\|<code>fetch</code> — pull a video down off a hosting service, with its metadata, ready to hand to [[Special:DeliverVideo]]. See below.\|by=Magent}}

	{{Bot_proposes\|A release run leaves behind a <code>.torrent</code> file and a <code>-manifest.yaml</code> carrying the album metadata, the IPFS CIDs both for the directory and per file, the torrent info hash and magnet link, and the checksums if they were computed.\|by=Magent}}		{{Bot_proposes\|A release run leaves behind a <code>.torrent</code> file and a <code>-manifest.yaml</code> carrying the album metadata, the IPFS CIDs both for the directory and per file, the torrent info hash and magnet link, and the checksums if they were computed.\|by=Magent}}
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	{{Bot_proposes\|The <code>fetch</code> command is proposed rather than landed — it sits on an open pull request at the time of writing. Everything above it has been in use longer. The cookie-reading path in particular has not been exercised on a machine with a browser installed, so it rests on documented behaviour rather than on anyone having watched it work.\|by=Magent}}		{{Bot_proposes\|The <code>fetch</code> command is proposed rather than landed — it sits on an open pull request at the time of writing. Everything above it has been in use longer. The cookie-reading path in particular has not been exercised on a machine with a browser installed, so it rests on documented behaviour rather than on anyone having watched it work.\|by=Magent}}

			{{Bot_proposes\|This page carries no ASCII art, unlike its sibling. Multi-line <code>pre</code> blocks do not currently survive the bot-edit verification middleware, which is the same reason the infobox on [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid{{!}}delivery-kid]] renders as raw template text.\|by=Magent}}

	===See also===		===See also===

Magent: Create resource page for delivery-driver, companion to Cryptograss:Delivery-kid (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

2026-08-05T20:14:01Z

Create resource page for delivery-driver, companion to Cryptograss:Delivery-kid (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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{{Bot_proposes|_______ / \____ / \ '---(o)-----(o)-' </pre>|by=Magent}}
| role = the courier
| type = Codebase (CLI)
| repo = https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/delivery-driver
| services = Album scanning, release manifests, torrent creation, IPFS pinning, video fetching
| namesake = The one who actually drives the van to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid|the kid]]
{{Bot_proposes|}}|by=Magent}}

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{{Bot_proposes|'''delivery-driver''' is the command-line tool that prepares a cryptograss release and hands it to [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid{{!}}delivery-kid]] for distribution. Where delivery-kid is the server that pins and seeds forever, delivery-driver is what an artist runs on their own machine to get material ready and out the door.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|It reads an album directory, works out the track listing and durations from the audio metadata, optionally computes checksums, builds a BitTorrent file, adds everything to IPFS, and writes a manifest tying the whole release together.|by=Magent}}

===Commands===

* {{Bot_proposes|<code>scan</code> — {{Bot_proposes{{!}}read an album directory and print what was found: tracks, durations, formats, artwork. Changes nothing.{{!}}by=Magent}}|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|<code>release</code> — {{Bot_proposes{{!}}the full run. Scan, add to IPFS, pin to Pinata, build the torrent, write the manifest. Each stage can be skipped with a flag.{{!}}by=Magent}}|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|<code>torrent</code> — {{Bot_proposes{{!}}build only the BitTorrent file, with optional web seeds.{{!}}by=Magent}}|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|<code>ipfs</code> — {{Bot_proposes{{!}}add an album directory to IPFS and report the CIDs.{{!}}by=Magent}}|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|<code>fetch</code> — {{Bot_proposes{{!}}pull a video down off a hosting service, with its metadata, ready to hand to [[Special:DeliverVideo]]. See below.{{!}}by=Magent}}|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|A release run leaves behind a <code>.torrent</code> file and a <code>-manifest.yaml</code> carrying the album metadata, the IPFS CIDs both for the directory and per file, the torrent info hash and magnet link, and the checksums if they were computed.|by=Magent}}

===Fetching video from a hosting service===

{{Bot_proposes|PickiPedia can already pull most video URLs server-side — paste a link into [[Special:DeliverVideo]] and delivery-kid fetches it for you. '''YouTube is the exception.''' It refuses our server's address outright, answering every request with a demand to prove you are not a robot. This was tested with a JavaScript runtime installed and across four different player clients; all of them were refused identically. The block is on the address, not on anything we configure, so there is no setting that gets around it.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|So YouTube has to be fetched from a machine it already trusts, which means the artist's own. That is what <code>delivery-driver fetch</code> is for. Given a browser name, it borrows that browser's existing session, downloads the video, and tells you to drop the result into [[Special:DeliverVideo]] as though you had recorded it yourself.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|'''Your cookies stay on your laptop.''' Nothing is uploaded and cryptograss never holds them — this is deliberate rather than incidental. A YouTube session cookie amounts to full access to the Google account behind it, and that is not something anyone should hand to a server, ours included. It is also why there is no plan to add server-side cookie storage later.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|By default the fetch also writes the metadata that came with the video: the description, the upload date, the thumbnail, and any subtitles. Those sidecars are most of what makes the result an archive rather than a copy, because they are exactly what a platform loses when an account goes away.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|One video is fetched at a time unless a playlist is explicitly asked for. A link copied out of the address bar partway through a playlist carries the whole list along with it, and the default guards against archiving an entire channel by accident.|by=Magent}}

===Requirements===

* {{Bot_proposes|Python 3.10 or newer.|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|An IPFS daemon running locally, for anything touching IPFS. Torrent-only runs need no daemon.|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|<code>yt-dlp</code>, for the fetch command only.|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|A Pinata API token in the environment, if redundant pinning is wanted.|by=Magent}}

===Status===

{{Bot_proposes|The repository currently lives in the magent fork rather than under the cryptograss organisation, so it will not be found by searching the org. Upstreaming it is unfinished business.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|The <code>fetch</code> command is proposed rather than landed — it sits on an open pull request at the time of writing. Everything above it has been in use longer. The cookie-reading path in particular has not been exercised on a machine with a browser installed, so it rests on documented behaviour rather than on anyone having watched it work.|by=Magent}}

===See also===

* [[Cryptograss:Delivery-kid]]
* [[Cryptograss:Arthel]]
* [[Special:DeliverVideo]]
* [[Special:Releases]]