Helper command that opening _utils page of desktopcouch

desktopcouch-cli.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Copyright 2011 @Yeevgen
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

import os
import os.path
import re
import webbrowser

try:
  import desktopcouch
except ImportError:
  desktopcouch = None

"""
Helper command that opens _utils page of desktopcouch
put this file into your ~/bin directory and add following alias:

  alias desktopcouch='python ~/bin/desktopcouch-cli.py'

"""

# Define a main() function
def main():
  if not desktopcouch:
    raise Exception("Desktopcouch isn't available on this machine.")

  ctx = desktopcouch.local_files.DEFAULT_CONTEXT
  bookmark_file = os.path.join(ctx.db_dir, "couchdb.html")
  try:
    username, password = re.findall("<!-- !!([^!]+)!!([^!]+)!! -->",
            open(bookmark_file).read())[-1]
  except ValueError:
    raise IOError("Bookmark file is corrupt."+
            "Username/password are missing.")

  url = "http://%s:%s@localhost:%s/_utils" % (username, password,
      desktopcouch.find_port())
  webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

# This is the standard boilerplate that calls the main() function.
if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()