sort local refs of your ipfs by filetype

viewlocalrefs.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import subprocess

refsdir = "./localrefs"

extensions = {  "ASCII text":"txt", 
                "C source":"c",
                "C++ source":"cpp",
                "HTML document":"html",
                "JPEG image data":"jpg",
                "PDF document":"pdf",
                "PNG image data":"png",
                "SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image":"svg",
                "UTF-8 Unicode text":"txt",
                "WebM":"webm"}

localrefs = subprocess.check_output(["ipfs", "refs", "local"]).decode("utf-8").split()
print(len(localrefs), "local refs found")

if not os.path.exists(refsdir):
    os.makedirs(refsdir)
    
ctr = 0
for ref in localrefs:
    ctr += 1
    print("Fetching ",ctr,"of",len(localrefs),"(",ref,")...")
    try:
        content = subprocess.check_output(["ipfs", "cat", ref])
        
        with open("./thisfile", "wb") as f:
            f.write(content)
            
        filetype = subprocess.check_output(["file", "-b", "./thisfile"]).decode("utf-8").split("/")[0].split(",")[0].strip()
        print("\tFiletype is: ", filetype)
        
        if len(filetype)<1:
            filetype = "Unknown"
        
        if not os.path.exists(refsdir+"/"+filetype):
            os.makedirs(refsdir+"/"+filetype)
        
        if filetype in extensions:
            ext = extensions[filetype]
        else:
            ext = ""
        
        os.rename("./thisfile", refsdir+"/"+filetype+"/"+ref+"."+ext)
    except:
        pass