README.md

NitroShare for Nautilus

The latest commits to NitroShare have added a local HTTP API that applications can take advantage of. To help demonstrate how this works, I have written a Nautilus extension that adds an item to the right-click menu for sending items with NitroShare

To try out the extension, please follow these instructions:

• install the gir1.2-nautilus-3.0, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, and python-requests packages
• download the nitroshare.py file included in this gist and save it to ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions
• restart nautilus (Alt+F2 and killall nautilus)

nitroshare.py

"""
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Nathan Osman

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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"""

from json import loads
from os import path
from urllib import url2pathname
from urlparse import urlparse

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
gi.require_version('Nautilus', '3.0')

from gi.repository import Nautilus, GObject, Gtk
from requests import ConnectionError, post


class NitroShareMenu(GObject.GObject, Nautilus.MenuProvider):
    """
    Add a menu item "Send with NitroShare".
    """

    _LOCALFILE = path.join(path.expanduser('~'), '.NitroShare')

    def send_items(self, menu, window, files, port, token):
        """
        Attempt to send the files using NitroShare.
        """
        try:
            post(
                url='http://127.0.0.1:{}/sendItems'.format(port),
                json={'items': files},
                headers={'X-Auth-Token': token},
            )
        except ConnectionError as e:
            dialog = Gtk.MessageDialog(
                window,
                Gtk.DialogFlags.MODAL,
                Gtk.MessageType.ERROR,
                Gtk.ButtonsType.OK,
                "Unable to communicate with NitroShare.",
            )
            dialog.format_secondary_text(str(e))
            dialog.run()
            dialog.destroy()

    def get_file_items(self, window, files):
        """
        Return a menu item if some files were selected.
        """
        if not len(files):
            return
        item = Nautilus.MenuItem(
            name='NitroShare::SendFiles',
            label="Send with NitroShare...",
        )
        try:
            with open(self._LOCALFILE, 'r') as f:
                d = loads(f.read())
            port = d['port']
            token = d['token']
        except (IOError, KeyError):
            item.set_property('sensitive', False)
        else:
            item.connect(
                'activate',
                self.send_items,
                window,
                [url2pathname(urlparse(x.get_uri()).path) for x in files],
                port,
                token,
            )
        return [item]