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Warning

This tool were broken in April 2014 since Brother delete some usefull web pages, but thanks to the web archive project, content where saved and is avaliable. During the time when the developpment of this tool were stalled, some additionnal La Rache compliant tools where fast-writed to hack already cached data. Another tool named file_brother to handle files will be developped to replace thoses scripts running alongside the web_brother.

The tool

The web_brother.sh tool helps to query Brother™ web pages: check licenses, list models, list driver files and urls… Currently this tools only handles complete printers information (some stubs remaining for scanners and pcfaxes). This tool is self-documented.

luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh list_models printers | wc -l
391
luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh list_secondary_models print_help
list models that uses driver from another model, by type (printers scanners pcfaxes)
luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh list_secondary_models printers | head -n 2
DCP-115C
DCP-117C
luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh get_primary_model printers DCP-115C
MFC-210C
luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh list_model_archives printers DCP-115C
cupswrapperMFC210C-1.0.2-3.i386.deb
mfc210clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb

This tool caches all computed informations:

luser@debian tools $ time ./web_brother.sh list_primary_models_with_archives printers | head -n 2
DCP-110C	cupswrapperDCP110C-1.0.2-3.i386.deb	dcp110clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb
DCP-130C	dcp130ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb	dcp130clpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb

real	0m1.200s

luser@debian tools $ time ./web_brother.sh list_primary_models_with_archives printers | head -n 2
DCP-110C	cupswrapperDCP110C-1.0.2-3.i386.deb	dcp110clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb
DCP-130C	dcp130ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb	dcp130clpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb

real	0m0.024s

You can explicitly precache (by default this tool caches just in time) or drop the cache.

luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh drop_cache >/dev/null
luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh pre_cache >/dev/null

This tool allows you to download files by type or by model, but this functionnality will be moved to another tool.

The tool is self-documented, for more information, invoke 'print_help' keyword:

luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh print_help | head -n 2
./web_brother.sh:
	parse information from Brother™ webpages, with many actions (print_help pre_cache list_cache drop_cache get_page_url print_page list_archives_with_licenses list_licenses is_license get_license_url print_license list_licenses_urls list_archives get_file_license get_file_url list_archives_urls is_file list_primary_models list_secondary_models_with_primary list_secondary_models list_models is_primary_model is_secondary_model is_model get_primary_model list_primary_models_with_archives list_model_archives list_model_archives_urls download_file download_model_archives download_archives)

luser@debian tools $ ./web_brother.sh list_primary_models_with_archives print_help
list models with files by type (printers scanners pcfaxes all)