arlo-go

Go package for interacting with Netgear's Arlo camera system.

Now in Go!

I love Go. That is why I decided to write this library! I am the creator of the first arlo library written in Python.

My goal is to bring parity to the Python version asap. If you know what you're doing in Go, I would appreciate any feedback on the general structure of the library, bugs found, contributions, etc.

It is by no means complete, although it does expose quite a bit of the Arlo interface in an easy to use Go pacakge. As such, this package does not come with unit tests (feel free to add them, or I will eventually) or guarantees. All contributions are welcome and appreciated!

Please, feel free to contribute to this repo or buy Jeff a beer!

Generous Benefactors (Thank you!)

No beers for Jeff yet! 🍺

Awesomely Smart Contributors (Thank you!)

• bwagner5 - Dec 8, 2019 - Migrated package from dep to go modules.

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Install

# Install latest stable package
$ go get github.com/jeffreydwalter/arlo-go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "sync"
    "time"

    "github.com/jeffreydwalter/arlo-go"
)

const (
    USERNAME = "user@example.com"
    PASSWORD = "supersecretpassword"
)

func main() {

    // Instantiating the Arlo object automatically calls Login(), which returns an oAuth token that gets cached.
    // Subsequent successful calls to login will update the oAuth token.
    arlo, err := arlo.Login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to login: %s\n", err)
        return
    }
    // At this point you're logged into Arlo.

    now := time.Now()
    start := now.Add(-7 * 24 * time.Hour)

    // Get all of the recordings for a date range.
    library, err := arlo.GetLibrary(start, now)
    if err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        return
    }

    // We need to wait for all of the recordings to download.
    var wg sync.WaitGroup

    for _, recording := range *library {

        // Let the wait group know about the go routine that we're about to run.
        wg.Add(1)

        // The go func() here makes this script download the files concurrently.
        // If you want to download them serially for some reason, just remove the go func() call.
        go func() {
            fileToWrite, err := os.Create(fmt.Sprintf("downloads/%s_%s.mp4", time.Unix(0, recording.UtcCreatedDate*int64(time.Millisecond)).Format(("2006-01-02_15.04.05")), recording.UniqueId))
            defer fileToWrite.Close()

            if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
            }

            // The videos produced by Arlo are pretty small, even in their longest, best quality settings.
            // DownloadFile() efficiently streams the file from the http.Response.Body directly to a file.
            if err := arlo.DownloadFile(recording.PresignedContentUrl, fileToWrite); err != nil {
                log.Println(err)
            } else {
                log.Printf("Downloaded video %s from %s", recording.CreatedDate, recording.PresignedContentUrl)
            }

            // Mark this go routine as done in the wait group.
            wg.Done()
        }()
    }

    // Wait here until all of the go routines are done.
    wg.Wait()

    // The below example demonstrates how you could delete the cloud recordings after downloading them.
    // Simply uncomment the below code to start using it.

    // Delete all of the videos you just downloaded from the Arlo library.
    // Notice that you can pass the "library" object we got back from the GetLibrary() call.
    /* if err := arlo.BatchDeleteRecordings(library); err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        return
    } */

    // If we made it here without an exception, then the videos were successfully deleted.
    /* log.Println("Batch deletion of videos completed successfully.") */
}

(coming soon) For more code examples check out the wiki