Galton

Let your downloads fall into the right place

Galton sorts your new downloads based on a set of rules.

Installation

Pre-build releases can be downloaded from the releases page.

Alternatively you can build it yourself using either nix build or cargo build.

Usage

galton --config <config> watch <download directory>

You can also apply your rules to an existing file using

galton --config <config> file <path>

Rules

Each rule can have 3 different match options containing a regex:

• name: the filename of the file
• url*: the source url of the file
• referrer*: the referrer of the file

*: See the "Url and referrer" section for more information and restrictions.

And two action options:

• move: directory to move the file into, will be created if necessary
• rename: rename the file

Action options can refer to capture groups from the match options and the file mtime to dynamically set the target directory and name.

Multiple rule sections can be configured, the first matching rule will be used.

Examples

Move a download based on the filename

[[rule]]
name = ".+\\.(stl|3mf)" # note that we need to double the \\ for to escape regex
move = "~/Printables"

Move a file based on where it's downloaded from.

[[rule]]
referrer = "https://www.thingiverse.com/model/(?<model>.+)"
move = "~/Printables/$model"

Rename a file when moving

[[rule]]
name = "\\.(csv|CSV)"
url = "https://www.paypal.com"
move = "~/Downloads/Paypal Statements/$mtime.csv" # $mtime is set to the unix timestamp

Url and referrer

Galton uses the standard user.xdg.origin.url and user.xdg.referrer.url extended attributes to determine the download url and referrer.

However browsers currently don't set the attributes on download files, firefox users can use originfox as a workaround.

Lastest download symlink

To make it easy to open the file you just downloaded, galton can be configured to automatically create a symlink to the new location of the file.

[watch]
symlink = "~/Downloads/last"

Lastest download symlink

Galton can also be used to clean up duplicate downloads, when enabled, it will check for any existing file with the same contents in the target directory and delete the newly download file if a duplicate is found.

[watch]
remove-duplicates = true