libretime -- script to post files from a given directory

post-files.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Invocation: ./post-files.py <some-directory-with-mp3-files>

import os
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import sys


URL = ':https://<hostname>:<port>/media/rest'
API_KEY = '<api-key>'

auth = HTTPBasicAuth(API_KEY, '')

posted = []
if os.path.exists('posted.txt'):
    with open('posted.txt', 'rb') as f:
        for line in f:
            posted.append(line.strip())


with open('posted.txt', 'ab') as f:
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(sys.argv[1]):
        for fname in files:
            fpath = os.path.join(root, fname)
            if fpath in posted:
                print '{} posted already, skipping'.format(fpath)
                continue
            print '{} -- posting'.format(fpath)
            r = requests.post(
                URL,
                auth=auth,
                files={'file': open(fpath, 'rb')}
            )
            f.write('{}\n'.format(fpath))

TODO: Could use GET request to /rest/media to query for current tracks, then probably posted.txt wouldn't be needded (provided you have a way to match the filenames only).