🚀 Feature: Upload files with CURL

[maetthew]

🔖 Feature description

Would be cool to have the ability to be able to upload files with CURL and just have the generated URL be returned.

Allow unauthenticated if unauthenticated shares are enabled, or authenticated through a token connected to your account.

🎤 Pitch

Be able to easily upload files through the terminal, integrate into scripts etc.. The sky's the limit!

[tdompierre]

It's actually already possible, though not documented. There are a couple of gotchas, and it might break when the new features come in, but at this time I have a working script to upload files.

• You need to prepend files with at least a comma ,, the exact format the frontend uses is data:application/octet-stream:base64,
• You need to base64 files before sending
• You need to specify the Content-Type header with the value set to application/octet-stream specifically
• You need to use --data-binary @${fileName} to set the body.
• For files larger than 10Mb, you have to chunk the files into exactly 10Mb chunks. Example for the command: curl -v -X POST -sH "content-type: application/octet-stream" -b ${auth} --data-binary "@${fileName}" ${pingvinUrl}/shares/${shareId}/files$args

If you need a clearer example of this, you can upload a file using the frontend and inspect the network calls. Hope this helps!

[MrZell]

I am also looking to upload files through the terminal via CURL. Been looking for a simple, easy to setup, lightweight app that can accept files from CURL without any authentication. Seems to be a bigger ask than I would have figured though Pingvin seems to be the closest thus far!

@tdompierre Since you've gotten CURL to work with Pingvin, I'm hoping you can provide some insight. I am not a developer so forgive me for my ignorance. I have no idea how to even begin with inspecting the network calls between the frontend and backend. I have Pingvin running in a Docker container on UnRAID. I just setup Netdata in another docker container and hope that I can use that for inspecting the network traffic.

Are there any tools or procedures you can recommend for inspecting the traffic between the frontend and backend? Things to look out for?