updating readme, updating to run as bin script, updating logging and data to go in hidden dir in home dir

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 645d61d..4bf89ea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
 2. Create and activate virtual environment
 3. install requirements.txt
 4. `python3 chandl.py <board> <thread_id>`
+5. ln -s full/path/to/chandl.py /usr/local/bin/chandl
+6. chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chandl
+   1. NOTE: This will create a log file in your bin folder, and a data directory if you do not specify a specific path!
+
+### Arch Installation
+1. Clone Repository
+2. pacman -S python-beautifulsoup4 python-requests
 
 ### Explanation of Arguments
 1. `board` - the board the thread is on like `gif` , `pol` , `wsg`
diff --git a/chandl.py b/chandl.py
index d963378..76e96dc 100644..100755
--- a/chandl.py
+++ b/chandl.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
 import argparse
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -14,14 +16,14 @@ class Chandl:
         self.board = board
         self.thread_id = thread_id
 
-        self.output_path = output_path if output_path else f'data/{self.thread_id}/'
+        self.output_path = output_path if output_path else f'{str(Path.home())}/.chandl/data/{self.thread_id}/'
         self.output_path_exists = os.path.exists(self.output_path)
 
         self.quiet = quiet
         if self.quiet:
             sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w')
 
-        self.log_path = f'logs/{thread_id}.pickle'
+        self.log_path = f'{str(Path.home())}/.chandl/logs/'
 
         self.delete_log = delete_log
         if self.delete_log:
@@ -42,8 +44,9 @@ class Chandl:
 
     def serialize_log_file(self):
         print('Saving log file...')
-        with open(self.log_path, 'wb') as f:
-            self.downloaded_files = pickle.dump(self.downloaded_files, f)
+        Path(self.log_path).mkdir(parents=True)
+        with open(f'{self.log_path}{self.thread_id}.pickle', 'wb') as f:
+           pickle.dump(self.downloaded_files, f)
 
     def main(self):
         print(f'Logs currently contain {len(self.downloaded_files)} files...')
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ class Chandl:
 
         resp = requests.get(file_path, stream=True)
 
-        full_file_path = f"{self.output_path}/{file_name}"
+        full_file_path = f"{self.output_path}{file_name}"
 
         print(f'Saving {file_name} to {full_file_path}...')
         with open(full_file_path, 'wb') as f: