A tool that allows to download and track the latest version of stuff on the net. Define your collections in .yml and launch Reaver to retrieve everything and move things to the right spot.

Reaver need only unzip, xz, tar and git, depending what you'll use.

Reaver search collections by order in:

• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/reaver
• $HOME/.config/reaver

For example, your need to use Vim, vim require a lots of external plugins to be more efficient, so create a collection called vim.yml.

$ $EDITOR ~/.config/reaver/vim.yml

In the file, we add all archives required by your projects.

---
things:
  - name: ombre.tar.gz
    url: https://github.com/szorfein/ombre.vim/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz
  - name: ale.tar.gz
    url: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz
  - name: indentline.tar.gz
    url: https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz
  - name: nerdtree.tar.gz
    url: https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz
time: 86000
all_into_dir: .config/pack/myvimpluggins/start
keep_name: true

To see more examples, look my dotfiles repository, each directory contain a list of tasks for Reaver.

After declaring your need, start Reaver simply with:

$ reaver

Reaver download all files in ~/.cache/reaver by default.

A collection can include:

• all_into_dir: <dirname> if all files go in a directory. Directory is created if not exist.
• keep_name: <boolean>, if true, create a directory with the name of the thing, e.g, for a name ombre.tar.gz, the final destination will be all_into_dir/ombre or dest_dir/ombre.
• force_download: <boolean>, if you make change and want to download now, change to true.
• things[].dest_dir: <dirname>, if each files go in different directory, use this.
• things[].name the new name after download, may include the file extension.
• things[].strip_components: <number>, used on tar, default to 1, skip the first directory from an archive, if no subdirectory exist, you should set to 0.
• things[].url: <string>
• things[].git: <boolean>, If the thing need to be managed with git.
• time: 86000 (in second) is for search every day ( 60 _ 60 _ 24 ).

If all_into_dir is defined, things[].dest_dir is not used.
All paths given are relative to $HOME so don't include ~ or any shell variables.