Download all your AUR packages with a script

Question

Here's a little quickie that will download all your scripts to the current working directory.  Uses ruby and requires the hpricot gem.  Also requires cower, install it from the AUR.  This is still pretty early, so it isn't very robust, but as long as you provide it with a valid username and the current directory is empty, you're good
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'
abort "Usage: " + File.basename(__FILE__) + " username\n" if $*.count != 1
sourceHtml = Hpricot(open("http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=#{$*[0]}&do_Search=Go&detail=0&C=0&SeB=m&SB=v&SO=d&PP=10000"))
packages = sourceHtml.search("//a[@href^='packages.php?ID=']/span/text()").map { |package| package.to_s.sub(/ .*/, '') }
packages.sort.each { |package| puts `cower -d #{package}` }
Three lines of code for the grunt work.  Amazing, isn't it?

Answer 1

It is much shorter when you use the rpc interface.
username=xduugu; curl -Ss 'https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=msearch&arg='"$username" | sed 's/},{/\n/g' | sed -r 's#.*"URLPath":"([^"]+)".*#\1#g;s#\\/#/#g' | wget -B https://aur.archlinux.org/ -i -