vttc08/megabasterd repository overview

⁠megabasterd-docker

⁠Originally created by gauravsuman007⁠

A containerized app for megbasterd from https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd⁠

This is an alpine container with noVNC which enables the running app GUI (Megabasterd) to be accessed from a web browser. I used the base image from https://github.com/jlesage/docker-baseimage-gui⁠ and configured it to run Megabasterd.

⁠Modifications

• changed MegaBasterd download during runtime rather time build time, allow for smaller image and ability to run any version with an environment variable
• automatically load optimized settings (SmartProxy list, download folder to correct place) during first time setup

⁠Setup

⁠Step 1: Setting up the docker container

I recommend using docker-compose, a typical script for that would look like:

version: '3'
services:
  megabasterd:
    image: vttc08/megabasterd
    container_name: megabasterd
    ports:
      - "5800:5800" # Web Browser
      - "5900:5900" # VNC client port
    environment:
      - jlesage_related_settings="UID,GID,TZ also goes here"
      - VERSION=8.21
    volumes:
      - "./config:/config:rw"
      - "./output:/output:rw"

• VERSION is an environment variable that can be used to specify the version of MegaBasterd to download. If not specified, the latest version (currrently 8.21) will be downloaded.
• this will not work if there is already a MegaBasterd.jar downloaded in your bind mount, you will need to delete it first
• output is the folder for the downloaded files

Due to some bugs with MegaBasterd, you'll need to restart the container after the first run to get it working with VNC.

docker compose up -d
docker compose restart megabasterd

⁠Step 2: Accessing the app and configuring it

The web UI can be accessed at port 5800. On the first run, go to the top menu "Edit" -> "Settings", you can add MEGA.nz API key (this may not be needed in newer version of MegaBasterd).

• MEGA API key (Under Advanced)

⁠Folder Structure

⁠Config

/config
├── MegaBasterd/
│   ├── MegaBasterd.run # script to run MegaBasterd
│   ├── loaded # flag to indicate if settings have been loaded
│   ├── jar/
│   │   ├── MegaBasterd.jar # main executable
│   │   ├── .megabasterd${VERSION}/
│   │   │   ├── megabasterd.db # settings file

⁠Update/Changing Version

The environment variable only download if the jar file is not found, so if you want to update the version, you will need to delete MegaBasterd.jar and MegaBasterd.run or optionally loaded.

rm -irf /bind/mount/config/MegaBasterd # this will delete the entire app folder and settings

• specifiy the new version in the docker-compose.yml as VERSION=8.21 variable

Alternatively, you can supply your own jar file and place it in the jar folder.