Script for generating Filebrowser share links (call ./generate-share-link -h to see usage information)

generate-share-link

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
import urllib.parse
import argparse

def get_auth_token(base_url, username, password):
    """Authenticate and get a token."""
    auth_url = f"{base_url}/api/login"
    data = {
        "username": username,
        "password": password
    }
    response = requests.post(auth_url, json=data)
    
    # Check the response status
    if response.status_code != 200:
        print(f"Error: Received status code {response.status_code}")
        print(response.text)
        response.raise_for_status()

    # Return the JWT token as the authentication token
    return response.text

def generate_share_link(base_url, token, path, expires=0, password=None):
    """Generate a share link."""
    encoded_path = urllib.parse.quote(path)
    share_url = f"{base_url}/api/share/{encoded_path}"
    headers = {
        "X-Auth": token,
        "Accept": "application/json",
    }
    
    data = {}
    if expires or password:
        share_url += f"?expires={expires}&unit=hours"
        data["expires"] = str(expires) if expires else '' # The API expects a string here for some reason
        data["unit"] = "hours"
        data["password"] = password if password else ''

    response = requests.post(share_url, headers=headers, json=data)
    response.raise_for_status()
    
    # Extract the hash from the response and construct the link
    hash_value = response.json().get("hash")
    shared_link = f"{base_url}/share/{hash_value}"
    
    return shared_link

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Generate a share link using Filebrowser API.")
    parser.add_argument("base_url", help="Your Filebrowser instance URL.")
    parser.add_argument("username", help="Your Filebrowser username.")
    parser.add_argument("password", help="Your Filebrowser password.")
    parser.add_argument("path", help="Path to be shared. IMPORTANT: When sharing a folder, add a trailing slash!")
    parser.add_argument("--expires", type=int, default=0, help="Expiration time in hours. Default is permanent.")
    parser.add_argument("--link-password", default=None, help="Password for the shared link.")

    args = parser.parse_args()

    token = get_auth_token(args.base_url, args.username, args.password)
    link = generate_share_link(args.base_url, token, args.path, args.expires, args.link_password)
    print(link)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()