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Bugs item #2042248, was opened at 2008-08-07 22:17
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Category: publisher
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Richard Neill (richardneill)
Assigned to: Nathan R. Yergler (nyergler)
Summary: RFE: non-interactive (CLI) version of ccPublisher

Initial Comment:
One of the things I'm working on is a large shell-script that takes debate 
archives (which I have filmed), and handles the process of editing, titling, 
normalising, format-conversion etc. The resulting files are CC-licensed, and 
I'd like to automatically upload them to archive.org.

However, I'd like to be able to do this *without* a GUI, but via a 
shell-script instead. Is there any chance of a modification to CC-publisher, 
which might be invoked something like this:

./publish.sh --file MYFILE.mpg --author ... --license ... --type ... --date 
.....

This would then upload the file, to archive.org and return the URL of the new 
file as its STDOUT.

Error messages to stderr, and exit code 0 or 1 depending on success/failure. 

Thanks - Richard

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>Comment By: Richard Neill (richardneill)
Date: 2008-08-09 00:34

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For the benefit of anyone else who encounters this bug report, what I
wanted pretty much exists already. It is documented at: 
http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-direct.php


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Comment By: Richard Neill (richardneill)
Date: 2008-08-09 00:18

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Thanks for a very helpful comment. That's a good start point, and I should
be able to figure it out for myself :-)

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Comment By: Nathan R. Yergler (nyergler)
Date: 2008-08-08 18:33

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liblicense (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/liblicense) includes a command
line tool you can use to embed license metadata in files.  You could use
this in a shell script to prepare the files for uploading.  We're not
actively developing ccPublisher so I don't think we'll be doing a full, end
to end, CLI tool.  Note that the pyarchive Python module (available in CC
svn @ berlios.de) attempts to wrap the archive.org submission API.  YMMV.

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