Output to file immediately?

[homocomputeris]

Can btac stream results to the output file immediately? Sometimes it hangs on, say, 92% for hours, and there is no output file.

Alternatively, where are the intermediate results are stored?

[dlesbre]

Intermediate results are only stored in RAM at the moment. However, if you interrupt the program by Ctrl+C, it should dump everything to a new temporary file, whose path is printed on the terminal.

Some data is still lost in this process, as only entries for which all queries have been completed have been processed. If an entry only has query result from 7/8 sources, these are lost when interrupting.

[homocomputeris]

it should dump everything to a new temporary file, whose path is printed on the terminal.

Does it contain all entries (like, completely everything) or only the processed ones?

[dlesbre]

It contains all entries, so its safe to replace your input file with the dump. It should tell you how many were completed (which isn't very convenient I know, I'm working on changing it to show the id of the last completed entry).

Note that if you run btac on multiple files, it also concatenates all files into a single one when dumping to a temporary file.

[homocomputeris]

Great, thanks a lot!