motionEye OS Slack Upload script.

upload.sh

#!/bin/bash

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# Constants

# TOKEN: Taken from an API bot
TOKEN='letters-numbers-numbers-numbersandletters'

# CHANNEL: When viewing the desired channel in a browser, this will be the last 
# segment of the URL
CHANNEL='numbersandletters'

# UPLOAD_URL: Should remain as-is
UPLOAD_URL='https://slack.com/api/files.upload'


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# Functions

# Upload the given file name (param) to slack
upload_file() {
    
    # Find the newest file with the given extension
    FILE_EXT=$1
    FILE_NAME=$(find /data/output -iname $FILE_EXT -type f -print | sort -n | tail -1 | cut -f2- -d" ")

    # Set the title to be the raw file name (not the full path)
    TITLE=$(awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' <<< "$FILE_NAME")

    # Set up the command before hand so that we can echo it if desired
    COMMAND_TEXT="-F file=@$FILE_NAME -F channels=$CHANNEL -F token=$TOKEN -F title=$TITLE $UPLOAD_URL"

    # Get the JSON response from the curl command. 
    # Slack will provide a field named 'ok' that contains a true/false variable indicating success
    RESPONSE=$(curl $COMMAND_TEXT | jq '.ok')

    # This should be done as a true bool instead of string comparison
    if [ "$RESPONSE" = "true" ]; then
        echo "Success"
    else
        echo "Failed to upload"
    fi
}


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# Main

# Upload the snapshot pic first
upload_file "*.jpg"

# Upload the video after waiting a bit for it to complete recording
sleep 90
upload_file "*.mp4"