================================== Python client library for ownCloud

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This pure python library makes it possible to connect to an ownCloud instance and perform file, share and attribute operations.

Please note that this is not a sync client implementation but a library that provides functions to abstract away HTTP calls for various ownCloud APIs.

See the ownCloud homepage <http://owncloud.org>_ for more information about ownCloud.

Features

Supports connecting to ownCloud 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 and newer.

General information

• retrieve information about ownCloud instance (e.g. version, host, URL, etc.)

Accessing files

• basic file operations like getting a directory listing, file upload/download, directory creation, etc
• read/write file contents from strings
• upload with chunking and mtime keeping
• upload whole directories
• directory download as zip
• access files from public links
• upload files to files drop link target

Sharing (OCS Share API)

• share a file/directory via public link
• share a file/directory with another user or group
• unshare a file/directory
• check if a file/directory is already shared
• get information about a shared resource
• update properties of a known share

Apps (OCS Provisioning API)

• enable/disable apps
• retrieve list of enabled apps

Users (OCS Provisioning API)

• create/delete users
• create/delete groups
• add/remove user from groups

App data

• store app data as key/values using the privatedata OCS API

Requirements

• Python >= 2.7 or Python >= 3.5
• requests module (for making HTTP requests)

Installation

Automatic installation with pip:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install pyocclient

Manual installation of development version with git:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install requests
$ git clone https://github.com/owncloud/pyocclient.git
$ cd pyocclient
$ python setup.py install

Usage

Example for uploading a file then sharing with link:

.. code-block:: python

import owncloud

oc = owncloud.Client('http://domain.tld/owncloud')

oc.login('user', 'password')

oc.mkdir('testdir')

oc.put_file('testdir/remotefile.txt', 'localfile.txt')

link_info = oc.share_file_with_link('testdir/remotefile.txt')

print "Here is your link: " + link_info.get_link()

Example for uploading a file to a public shared folder:

.. code-block:: python

import owncloud

public_link = 'http://domain.tld/owncloud/A1B2C3D4'

oc = owncloud.Client.from_public_link(public_link)
oc.drop_file('myfile.zip')

Example for downloading a file from a public shared folder with password:

.. code-block:: python

import owncloud

public_link = 'http://domain.tld/owncloud/A1B2C3D4'
folder_password = 'secret'

oc = owncloud.Client.from_public_link(public_link, folder_password=folder_password)
oc.get_file('/sharedfile.zip', 'download/destination/sharedfile.zip')

Running the unit tests

To run the unit tests, create a config file called "owncloud/test/config.py". There is a config file example called "owncloud/test/config.py.sample". All the information required is in that file. It should point to a running ownCloud instance to test against.

You might also need to install the unittest-data-provider package:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install unittest-data-provider

Then run the script "runtests.sh":

.. code-block:: bash

$ ./runtests.sh

Building the documentation

To build the documentation, you will need to install Sphinx and docutil. Then run the following commands:

.. code-block:: bash

$ sphinx-apidoc -e -f -o docs/source owncloud/ owncloud/test
$ cd docs
$ make html

You can then find the documentation inside of "doc/build/html".