[ZendTo] AutoPickUp

Thu May 28 14:28:59 BST 2020

Sean,

I have just released another beta of ZendTo, 5.24-11.
This includes the "autolist" command you wanted.
I have also added some more documentation about the automation scripts, 
which is at
     zend.to/automation
which will give you some examples of how to use the commands.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 27/05/2020 09:30, Jules via ZendTo wrote:
> Sean,
>
> Would another "autolist" script that dumped the details of every 
> single drop-off in the system, as 1 big JSON structure, do what you need?
>
> Then you can use your own code to search the data for the drop-offs 
> you're looking for, get the ClaimID and Passcode of the relevant ones, 
> then use "autopickup" to download them.
>
> Having that script exist at all is risky, in my view, as it gives 
> anyone who gets access to it "the keys to the castle vault". But then 
> again if, like most people, you're using SQLite3 then it's just saving 
> a hacker the step of working out how the DB schema works. Which would 
> take someone competent about 10 minutes. It's very simple and obvious.
>
> Let me know if that would be a good solution for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> On 26/05/2020 21:32, Cole, Sean wrote:
>>
>> We are basically looking to have our students drop documents off 
>> and don't want the staff to have to go to their email click on the 
>> link to ZendTo, then download the file, then place it in the folder 
>> where it has to go.  We want o have an automated process to check for 
>> any documents a student may have dropped off every 10 minutes.  Pick 
>> them up and put them in the necessary folder on the server.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>
>> Sean Cole
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Cole, Sean
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:56 PM
>> *To:* Jules; ZendTo Users
>> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] AutoPickUp
>>
>> Each Drop-off has a different claimID and passcode so if you have 10 
>> drop-offs how can you automate the pickup if you don't have the 
>> unique claimID and passcode for each of the 10 drop-offs?
>>
>> Thanks Again for you help,
>>
>> Sean Cole
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Jules <Jules at Zend.To>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 23, 2020 5:41 AM
>> *To:* ZendTo Users
>> *Cc:* Cole, Sean
>> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] AutoPickUp
>> Sean,
>>
>> Before using any of the scripts, you need to create a user that will 
>> be only used for driving the automation scripts of ZendTo. Don't use 
>> a real user's account, create one just for the purpose.
>> Put that username in the 'automationUsers' setting in preferences.php.
>>
>> For this example, let's set a few things:
>> - The automation user is going to have the username "robot" with a 
>> password of "machines".
>> - The claimID and passcode of the drop-off will be "aaaClaimIDaaa" 
>> and "bbbPasscodebbb".
>> - The address of your ZendTo site will be 
>> "https://your-zendto-site.com/". The site address always goes at the 
>> very end of the command, after all the other options.
>>
>> To see the command-line usage:
>>     /opt/zendto/bin/autopickup --help
>>
>> Fetch information about the drop-off, without downloading anything:
>>     /opt/zendto/bin/autopickup --username "robot" --password 
>> "machines" --claimid "aaaClaimIDaaa" --passcode "bbbPasscodebbb" 
>> --list --nofiles https://your-zendto-site.com/
>>
>> Fetch all the files in the drop-off to the current directory, 
>> verifying their checksums, and logging that they were picked up by 
>> "user at yourdomain.com":
>>     /opt/zendto/bin/autopickup --username "robot" --password 
>> "machines" --claimid "aaaClaimIDaaa" --passcode "bbbPasscodebbb" 
>> --checksum --pickedupby 
>> "user at yourdomain.com"https://your-zendto-site.com/
>>
>> Fetch all the files in the drop-off to the directory 
>> "/var/tmp/downloads", not bothering with checksums or logging who did it:
>>     /opt/zendto/bin/autopickup --username "robot" --password 
>> "machines" --claimid "aaaClaimIDaaa" --passcode "bbbPasscodebbb" 
>> --output "/var/tmp/downloads"https://your-zendto-site.com/
>>
>> The output of the "--list --nofiles" command above will give you a 
>> unique "fileid" number for each of the files in the drop-off. So 
>> let's download file number 123, verify its checksum and save it to 
>> the file "~/Downloads/my-picked-up-file":
>>     /opt/zendto/bin/autopickup --username "robot" --password 
>> "machines" --claimid "aaaClaimIDaaa" --passcode "bbbPasscodebbb" 
>> --file 123 --checksum --output 
>> "~/Downloads/my-picked-up-file"https://your-zendto-site.com/
>>
>> If you are using a locally-signed SSL certificate on your ZendTo 
>> server, you may need to add the option
>>     --insecure
>> to all of the above examples.
>>
>> To see the "curl" command it creates, which is what does all the 
>> work, but not actually run anything, add the option
>>     --debug
>> to any of the above examples.
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>> The point of me using "curl" is that all the script really does is 
>> create all the parameters for an HTTP POST request to your ZendTo 
>> server, and then pull out the JSON results from the right header in 
>> the returned data. The "--debug" option will help you understand what 
>> it's doing.
>>
>> Once you have played with it a bit, take a look how the script works 
>> (90% is just parsing the command-line!) and you will see how you 
>> could use a .Net http request to achieve the same result with your 
>> own code running on a Windows server.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 22/05/2020 20:25, Cole, Sean via ZendTo wrote:
>>>
>>> Is anyone using the AutoPickUp Script?  Any documentation on the 
>>> use of the script or examples. Trying to move the files 
>>> uploaded from the ZendTo server to a Windows server.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> *Sean Cole*
>>>
>>> Mgr. Network Services
>>>
>>> SeanCole at sunywcc.edu <mailto:SeanCole at sunywcc.edu>
>>>
>>> 914-606-6923
>>>
>>>
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>>
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