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This is a Python client for Baidu Yun (a.k.a PCS - Personal Cloud Storage), an online storage website offering 2 TB (fast) free personal storage. This main purpose is to be able to utilize this stoarge service under Linux environment (console), e.g. Raspberry Pi.
**Due to Baidu PC permission restrictions, this program can only access your `/apps/bypy` directoy at Baidu PCS**
**It'ssaidtheBaiduPCSAPIwon't return more than 1000 items inside a directory (#306 )，if this is true，you won't be able to see / download some files if you have a directoyr with more than 1000 files on Baidu Cloud**
**(Fixed) ~~It's said the Baidu PCS API won't return more than 1000 items inside a directory ( #306 )，if this is true，you won't be able to see / download some files if you have a directory with more than 1000 files on Baidu Cloud~~**
**Features: Unicode / Chinese support; Retry on failures; Recursive down/up-load; Directory comparison; Hash caching.**
Prerequisite
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**Important: You need to set you system locale encoding to UTF-8 for this to work (You can refere here: http://perlgeek.de/en/article/set-up-a-clean-utf8-environment)**
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**Important: You need to set you system locale encoding to UTF-8 for this to work (You can refere here: http://perlgeek.de/en/article/set-up-a-clean-utf8-environment)**
Installation
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-`pip install bypy` (Supports Python 2.7+, 3.3+)
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-`pip install bypy` (Supports Python 2.7+, 3.3+)
Usage
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- Standalone program
- Simply run `bypy` (or `python -m bypy`, or `python3 -m bypy`）
You will see all the commands and parameters it supports
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Simple GUI:
Run `bypygui`
For advanced GUI with parallel downloading capbility, this seems a good choice: [bcloud](../../../../LiuLang/bcloud)
Getting started
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To get help and a list of available commands:
```
bypy
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To get more information about the commands, check the output of `bypy`.
Debug
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- Add in `-v` parameter, it will print more details about the progress.
- Add in `-d` parameter, it will print some debug messages.
- Add in `-ddd`, it will display HTTP messages as well (**Warning: A lot**）
Tips / Sharing
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Please go to [wiki](../../wiki)
To call from Python code
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```python
frombypyimportByPy
bp=ByPy()
bp.list()# or whatever instance methods of ByPy class
```
License
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PCS API Document: http://developer.baidu.com/wiki/index.php?title=docs/pcs/rest/file_data_apis_list
PCS API Document (link dead 404): http://developer.baidu.com/wiki/index.php?title=docs/pcs/rest/file_data_apis_list (Offline pdf retrieved before: [baidudoc](baidudoc) directory)
