teddbug-S/watchdog_plus

A python package built on top of watchdog to make monitoring of file system events easier and more customisable. This is adds the capabilities of monitoring files/directories in bulk and in background.

Watchdog Plus

A python package to built on top of watchdog for extra functionality such as monitoring multiple directory paths using processes or threads programmatically, easily create and schedule an observer, schedule observer services known as WatchDogService to monitor paths in the background also providing you with APIs to manage the background process.

Usage

the Observer Manager

Create an observer.

from watchdog_plus.managers import BaseObserverManager, StartMethods

items = [
    ["/home/teddbug/Desktop", 'desktop'],
    ["/home/teddbug/Downloads", 'downloads'],
]
# initialize the manager class
manager = BaseObserverManager()
# configure the handler class
# it takes extra args for log_file and filter_modified

manager.handler_config(filter_modified=True) # handler without log file, logs to stdout
# manager.handler_config(filter_modified=True, log_file="mylogfile.log") # handler with log_file

observers = manager.create_observers(items) # create observers from items

# start a single observer
manager.start_observer(name="desktop")

# or start all the observers
manager.start_observers(observers=observers)