How to add an NZB from the command line

[revelation60]

I am writing a .desktop file for sabnzbd, so I can just click on my NZBs to load them into SABnzbd. What I don't know is what URL I should call to add a file. Or should I invoke a python script?

[shypike]

Which Operating System are you using?

[revelation60]

Linux.

[revelation60]

How do you do it in Windows? It must be somewhat the same, as python and the http calls are platform independent.

[shypike]

On Windows SABnzbd can bind itself to the NZB extension.
I'm not sure how to do that on Linux.
From the command line you just start SABnzbd again with the nzb-path as the only parameter.
It will try to find out if another instance is running and pass the NZB.
You should either use the standard profile location ~/.sabnzbd or pass the same -f parameter as well.

[revelation60]

I can't manage to get sabnzbd to load an nzb. I tried the following things:

python /opt/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py test.nzb
python /opt/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py test.nzb -f /opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
sudo su - sabnzbd -c "python /opt/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s localhost:8080 test.nzb"

The command only has to work when there is already an instance of sabnzbd running. I hope the solution is similar to my first attempt, because I can't specify a lot of customized parameters from a file association.

[shypike]

Personally I would setup a "Watched" Folder" in SABnzbd and use
a small script to copy the NZB into the Watched folder.
Associate the script with the .nzb extension.

[revelation60]

Ok. I am trying to add this feature to a package, because I am the maintainer, so setting up a folder is not really going to work. I will try adding through the API now, although I would have preferred just calling the python file.

[jcfp]

Maybe this could be of use?