Download whole directories in Python SimpleHTTPServer
I really like how I can easily share files on a network using the SimpleHTTPServer, but I wish there was an option like "download entire directory". Is there an easy (one liner) way to implement this?
Thanks
Answer
I did that modification for you, I don't know if there'are better ways to do that but:
Just save the file (Ex.: ThreadedHTTPServer.py) and access as:
$ python -m /path/to/ThreadedHTTPServer PORT
The modification also works in threaded way so you won't have problem with download and navigation in the same time, the code aren't organized but:
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn
import threading
import SimpleHTTPServer
import sys, os, zipfile
PORT = int(sys.argv[1])
def send_head(self):
"""Common code for GET and HEAD commands.
This sends the response code and MIME headers.
Return value is either a file object (which has to be copied
to the outputfile by the caller unless the command was HEAD,
and must be closed by the caller under all circumstances), or
None, in which case the caller has nothing further to do.
"""
path = self.translate_path(self.path)
f = None
if self.path.endswith('?download'):
tmp_file = "tmp.zip"
self.path = self.path.replace("?download","")
zip = zipfile.ZipFile(tmp_file, 'w')
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
for file in files:
if os.path.join(root, file) != os.path.join(root, tmp_file):
zip.write(os.path.join(root, file))
zip.close()
path = self.translate_path(tmp_file)
elif os.path.isdir(path):
if not self.path.endswith('/'):
# redirect browser - doing basically what apache does
self.send_response(301)
self.send_header("Location", self.path + "/")
self.end_headers()
return None
else:
for index in "index.html", "index.htm":
index = os.path.join(path, index)
if os.path.exists(index):
path = index
break
else:
return self.list_directory(path)
ctype = self.guess_type(path)
try:
# Always read in binary mode. Opening files in text mode may cause
# newline translations, making the actual size of the content
# transmitted *less* than the content-length!
f = open(path, 'rb')
except IOError:
self.send_error(404, "File not found")
return None
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-type", ctype)
fs = os.fstat(f.fileno())
self.send_header("Content-Length", str(fs[6]))
self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(fs.st_mtime))
self.end_headers()
return f
def list_directory(self, path):
try:
from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
from StringIO import StringIO
import cgi, urllib
"""Helper to produce a directory listing (absent index.html).
Return value is either a file object, or None (indicating an
error). In either case, the headers are sent, making the
interface the same as for send_head().
"""
try:
list = os.listdir(path)
except os.error:
self.send_error(404, "No permission to list directory")
return None
list.sort(key=lambda a: a.lower())
f = StringIO()
displaypath = cgi.escape(urllib.unquote(self.path))
f.write('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">')
f.write("<html>\n<title>Directory listing for %s</title>\n" % displaypath)
f.write("<body>\n<h2>Directory listing for %s</h2>\n" % displaypath)
f.write("<a href='%s'>%s</a>\n" % (self.path+"?download",'Download Directory Tree as Zip'))
f.write("<hr>\n<ul>\n")
for name in list:
fullname = os.path.join(path, name)
displayname = linkname = name
# Append / for directories or @ for symbolic links
if os.path.isdir(fullname):
displayname = name + "/"
linkname = name + "/"
if os.path.islink(fullname):
displayname = name + "@"
# Note: a link to a directory displays with @ and links with /
f.write('<li><a href="%s">%s</a>\n'
% (urllib.quote(linkname), cgi.escape(displayname)))
f.write("</ul>\n<hr>\n</body>\n</html>\n")
length = f.tell()
f.seek(0)
self.send_response(200)
encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html; charset=%s" % encoding)
self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
self.end_headers()
return f
Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
Handler.send_head = send_head
Handler.list_directory = list_directory
class ThreadedHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
"""Handle requests in a separate thread."""
if __name__ == '__main__':
server = ThreadedHTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', PORT), Handler)
print 'Starting server, use <Ctrl-C> to stop'
server.serve_forever()