Python 3 script for downloading the content of a Seafile folder using a (public) share link
Seafile share links are great, but if you want to download a folder Seafile will have to generate a zip file. This is not a limitation of Seafile, all other cloud storage web client do the same as it is not possible for a web browser to create folders. If the shared folder is big, Seafile might take a very long time generating the zip archive of will simply refuse to create it. In that case the only thing you can do is downloading each file manually :-(.
This script helps solving this problem by automating the download of a shared folder without any zip file creation :-).
This script uses only standard python 3 modules, so you only need python 3 on your system.
share_link_dl.py share_link_url [destination_path]
where:
- share_link_url : url created using the "create share link" feature of Seafile. It usually look like http://url_of_seafile_server/d/long_random_string
- destination_path : is the path where you want to store the content of the shared folder on you local filesystem. If this parameter is omitted the default location is the current folder
.(no enclosing folder is created by default so be careful when downloading a folder containing lots of files at its root)