How to easily transfer your files to iPad with Python one liner

Nice little hack.

I assume he means port 8000 in the part that reads:

From your iPad, open safari and go to

http://192.168.1.2:8080

to access and download the files to your iPad.

Otherwise, you are browsing on a different port and it probably won't work.

(edit: Also, you need to know your computer's IP address ... mine happened to be the default one, but YMMV)

This is nice, and I can see the files, but I have no download option. There's a "Copy" in safari but where the heck can I save these to?

EDIT: okay, figured it out. This app can do it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id3...

You don't even need Cydia!

My `bin/server`. It prints all ip addresses binded to the machine, and tries port numbers starting from 8000 until one is available for use:

  #!/usr/bin/env python2.7
  
  import commands
  import subprocess
  
  port=8000
  while commands.getstatusoutput('lsof -i -P|grep ":' + str(port) + '"')[1]:
      port = port + 1
  print commands.getstatusoutput('ip addr | grep inet')[1], "\n"
  subprocess.call(['env', 'python2.7', '-m', 'SimpleHTTPServer', str(port)])

I was inspired to write a small bash script to let you know which ip exactly to go to. It is hackish due to my limited knowledge of sed but it works on my Mac at least

  #!/bin/bash
  ip=`ifconfig -r en0 inet | sed -E '/en0/d;s/inet[ \t]([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).+/\1/'`
  ip=`echo $ip | tr -d '[:space:]'`
  echo "Go to $ip:8000 in a browser on your local network. When you are done, use ctrl-c to exit"
  python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

But where on the iPad is it stored?

And can I reverse it - taking photos off iPad into my server

Really backing up these devices is a closed book to me

The code in the post is for Python 2.x but if you're running Python 3.x, use this to set up a server:

    python -m http.server 8000

Thanks for sharing, great hack!

Why not this? :-)

   "python -c 'import os; os.system("mv ... ~/Dropbox/from_comp_x/")'

Edit: My point is -- what makes this worth up votes?!

Use our Tonido server instead (http://www.tonido.com/ios/). Less adventurous though :-)