py-onedrive

Onedrive client made in Python (for educ purposes)

Supported Features

• Authentication
• Sync onedrive to disk (one-way-direcction)
• Sync files and folder deletion from onedrive to disk (one-way-direcction)
• Exclude folder tree
• OneDrive Personal Only

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ccampora/py-onedrive.git

Configuration

There is no need for further configuration. The default location to sync is $HOME/onedrive. Make sure that folder exists.

In order to use the Include / Exclude functionality: in $HOME/.py-onedrive create the file .py-onedrive-folders and include or exclude folders as needed. By default it will always include files (only) in the root directory

Format Example:

{
	"include": [
                { "path": ":/Documents" }
        ],
	"exclude": [
		{ "path": ":/Pictures" },
    		{ "path": ":/Others/01" }
	]
}

Run

go into the cloned py-onedrive folder and run

python Onedrive.py

the first time it will require you to login into your Microsoft Account. If the auth is successful you will be redirected to another URL. Copy the value of code into the console

https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient?code={copy this}

Run on crontab

As for now the client is executed asynchronously. To run it on a recurrent fashion use a crontab Edit user crontab

crontab -u <your user> -e

Add a new entry to run each minute

* * * * * python <path to cloned folder>/Onedrive.py >> $HOME/.py-onedrive/py-onedrive.log