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PhotoBackup Python client

A simple console Python 3 client for PhotoBackup. It is mostly used to test servers. You can use it with:

$ python photobackup.py upload http://myserver.com/ image.jpg

or test it with:

$ python photobackup.py test http://myserver.com/

A password is asked to the user, then the request is operated. When the request to the server is done, the response status is shown. You got:

• 200 when the request was successful ;
• 400 when the request was badly formed ;
• 403 when the given password is not the same as the server's one ;
• 408 when the request timed out ;
• 500 when an error occured on the server in the meanwhile.

See the official API for more information.

Installation with the Makefile

You can use the included Makefile to build a virtual Python environment:

make && source venv/bin/activate

If I were you, that's what I would do.

Installation without virtual environment

You can use the client directly if you have all dependencies already available. Those are:

• blessings for a bit of color ;
• docopt for an easy command-line interface ;
• requests for easy HTTP requests.