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Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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A very simple GUI app written in Python + Tkinter/ttk (using the boto3 python package) meant for non-technical people to upload large files to S3 buckets. It uses a config file so you can customize the credentials and the buckets that they are allowed to upload into.

It currently uses py2app to build an OSX app but it's also possible to just run the s3_uploader.py script directly to start it up.

Awesome. Good job.

Feature request: On hitting cancel, could that be 'resume'/ 'clear' ?

Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!

Here ya go! http://imgur.com/SoouwvS

Add a gif/webm of it in action to your readme. That will make it a lot easier and nicer to see what it's doing.

I uploaded a quick screencapture to youtube and updated the README file to point to it. Hope that helps. The youtube link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciA5XX3CIOs

Hi, Thanks. I added a screencapture video to the README file. It's on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciA5XX3CIOs

FWIW I uploaded a newer Youtube screen capture with some of the changes that were suggested here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXHOTSKi-4

It looks like it's missing a license file. Would you mind if you specified a free software license for your project?

Hi, I just added a MIT LICENSE file to it.

Neat. I had lots of issues with S3 about a year ago. If I had any sort of network saturation from, well, uploading files, the connection would die while keeping the files up in s3. I couldn't find any direct way to do any sort of checksums directly on S3, either, so some hackery had to be done to upload incomplete files without duplicating bandwidth. It was pretty frustrating at the time!

Might be nice to have a feature to prevent shoulder surfing...the credential info appears to be readable at a distance. Perhaps fading to a very low contrast font color, or hide/show to flip from "* * * * *" to "password".

Maybe prefilling the S3 filename with the basename of the selected file as well?

Hi, thanks for the ideas. I just added a toggle visibility button (flips between "*" and the real text) for the AWS credentials. Also added the prefilling of the S3 filename with the basename of the uploaded file.

This is cool! If you could make it possible to specify host, then it would possible to use this to upload directly to CephFS via Rados Gateway's S3 API.

That would be great, and maybe also a http/https checkbox...

Hi, thanks for the idea... I can't seem to figure out how to set the host using boto3. I'm still digging through their documentation though. If you know or have an example please post a link or send a pull request if you get it to work.

Does this work after you put your laptop to sleep?

shrug I started a big upload and closed my MBP's lid and opened it a minute later and it was done. Also tried it by selecting "Sleep" from the Apple menu and that also seemed to complete.

I think it's more dependent on the configuration of the OS (if it has wifi while sleeping etc)... my OSX apparently continues my upload when I tell it to sleep though in the "System Settings" > "Energy Saver" pane I have "Wake for Wi-Fi network access" turned on and I'm plugged in to the power adapter so may be that's what's letting it work.

"I hope he used python for this". Was not disappointed. Cool project OP!

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