Tech Support Fort - Questions, Comments and Codecs (READ THE OP!)

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Maki: Apr 29, 2020

I've built myself a short python script to make uploading screenshots to lpix and including them in my posts easier.

How it works is, you write a bbcode post as normal, into a text file. Where you want to include images, you write a line of the form

code:

#IMG <filename>

The script then goes through the post, fetches the images from your harddrive, uploads them to lpix with the provided credentials, and replaces the line in the post with a bbcode img-tag linking to that lpix upload. You will need to edit in your username and password into the python file directly.

So, for example, you write

code:

[b]My Update[/b]

Here is a pic:
#IMG testpic.png

and the script turns it into

code:

[b]My Update[/b]

Here is a pic:
[img]<link>[/img]

no manual uploading required.

Usage is

code:

lptool.py [optional parameters] <filename>

. The optional parameters allow you to specify a gallery to upload to, the file into which the edited post should be written, the path to the image folder, and a prefix that should be prepended to the uploaded file names.

Python code:

import requests
import argparse

url = "https://lpix.org/api"

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    prog="LP Tool", description="Parses LP script, uploads referenced media and inserts links")

parser.add_argument('infile')
parser.add_argument('--gallery', '-g', default="Default")
parser.add_argument('--outfile', '-o', default="out.txt")
parser.add_argument('--img_folder', '-i', default="imgs")
parser.add_argument('--prefix', '-p', default="")

args = parser.parse_args()

infile = open(args.infile, "r")
outfile = open(args.outfile, "w")

post_data = {
    "username": "<username>",
    "password": "<password>",
    "gallery": args.gallery,
    "output": "json",
}

for line in infile:
    if line[0] == "#":
        if line[1:5] == "IMG ":
            imgfile = line[5:]
            files = {'file': (args.prefix + imgfile, open(
                f"{args.img_folder}/{imgfile}", 'rb'))}
            post_response = requests.post(url, data=post_data, files=files)
            if (not post_response.ok):
                print(post_response.json())
                exit(1)
            else:
                outfile.write(
                    f"[img]{post_response.json()['imageurl']}[/img]")
    else:
        outfile.write(line)

If you think this could be useful for you and try it out, please let me know if problems arise, this thing is a quick hack that works for me locally, I'm sure it contains horrible bugs that I didn't think about.

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 08:43

Maki: Apr 29, 2020

Odd Wilson posted:

Looks far more cleaner and professional than the old, janky code I wrote for myself a long time back that I'm still using. Also handles the upload process simultaneously too, which is nice, but does conflict with my current workflow a bit.

I'll give it a test if I can find the time.

For reference, can you maybe detail your workflow a bit? I'm winging it as I go, so I'm both curious how I can improve my workflow and how I can improve the script to handle more people's needs.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2023 17:22

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