[Owncloud] Rescan Pictures with a cronjob task

[Bartek Przybylski]

Hold one for a few weeks more, you will be amazed what you will see there :)

2012/5/25 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>:
> Just a commend from my side.
> ownCloud should handle things like rescanning of file completely automatic and transparent to the user. So a call from the outside like this should only be important for debugging purposes or very special use cases.
>
> The real solution for this problem is that the gallery detects new files automatically.
> If this doens´t work than it´s a bug that should be fixed in gallery. :-)
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 25.05.2012, at 09:15, eMerzh <merzhin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm also interrested in this information :
>>
>> How can we do a curl / wget on any page of owncloud
>> I think that if we try to use a basic auth, we will keep beeing
>> redirect to the default page (OC_Util::redirectToDefaultPage in
>> index.php Line 112)
>>
>> Is it what we want?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 23 May 2012 22:23 Florian Hülsmann wrote:
>>>> Hi Niko,
>>>>
>>>> putting this command into the crontab should do the job:
>>>>
>>>> curl -s -L --max-redirs 3 --basic -u 'user:password'
>>>> 'http://host/owncloud/?app=gallery&getfile=ajax/galleryOp.php&operation=scan
>>>> '
>>>>
>>>> But I'm not sure why it even redirects... Someone else may provide a
>>>> better solution.
>>>
>>> It seems like http auth is kinda useless now because of all the redirects. I
>>> have a script to backup contacts and calendars, but on OC4 I get a listing of
>>> the files instead?
>>>
>>> wget --auth-no-challenge --http-user=user --http-password=password \
>>>  -O file.vcf "http://host/owncloud/?app=contacts&getfile=export.php?bookid=X"
>>>
>>> If you run:
>>>
>>> curl -L -v --basic -u 'user:password' \
>>> 'http://host/owncloud/?app=gallery&getfile=ajax/galleryOp.php&operation=scan'
>>>
>>> you can see that it just keeps requesting http://lhost/owncloud/?app=files and
>>> never gets any further.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
>>>
>>> Thomas Tanghus
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