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TimClark

05 Jan, 2011 04:45 AM via web

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I'm interested in an auto-download/delete script, but I'm not able to figure out from the documentation if this is really supported.

If I get a "download_url" for an item, can I then pass that URL to curl like:

curl -u YOUR_PUT.IO_USERNAME:YOUR_PUT.IO_PASSWORD --location-trusted URL -o FILENAME.EXT -C -

I'd rather get a token from the API to perform a download rather than use a real user/pass, but the examples are only to assemble a separate streaming URL, which I don't care about in this case...

If this worked, I could create scripts for my media player that did clever things like: download all items in the X folder, and delete them after the download successfully completes.

1. 2 Posted by TimClark on 05 Jan, 2011 06:29 AM

   

   I didn't search enough. It looks like it definitely should work with curl, but requires the real credentials.

   Rephrased: are there plans to issue download tokens like streaming tokens are issued?

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2. 3 Posted by aft on 05 Jan, 2011 07:41 AM

   

   Hey Tim,
   You can use streaming links for this. Streaming links doesn't require basic http auth credentials. It just requires a token as you mentioned.

   Check the "Building Audio/Video Stream URLs" section on this page: https://put.io/service/api/insight

   And the method you need to get the token is "acctoken"

   Here is a curl sample to get the token:

   curl -X POST "http://api.put.io/v1/user?method=acctoken" -d 'request={"api_key":"XXXXX","api_secret":"YYYYY", "params": {}}'
   

   Please let us know if you have further questions.

   Best regards,
   Cem

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3. aft closed this discussion on 05 Jan, 2011 07:41 AM.

4. TimClark re-opened this discussion on 05 Jan, 2011 09:37 AM

5. 4 Posted by TimClark on 05 Jan, 2011 09:37 AM

   

   So is there any difference between the streaming URL and the download URL, other than the ability to use tokens? - Will I end up with the same file if I use curl to fetch?

   thanks!

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6. 5 Posted by aft on 05 Jan, 2011 10:47 AM

   

   Hello,
   Yes. Only the authentication method differs. Since most of the video players don't support http auth, we use tokens for streaming urls.

   You may need to specify a file name when using stream urls. I'm not sure if curl will be able to detect the file name correctly.

   For wget, I use -O filename.ext parameter.

   Best regards,
   Cem

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7. aft closed this discussion on 05 Jan, 2011 10:47 AM.

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