S3 Uploader
by Charles Daniel
Introduction
This is a very simple S3 File Uploader app written in Python+Tkinter/ttk and uses Boto3 for the actual S3 interaction. Additionally it uses py2app to create a standalone OSX app that can be launched by clicking an icon. A configuration file can be used to specify the credentials as well as a list of buckets one should be uploading files into. It's mainly for giving it to non-technical people (along with a custom configuration file) so they can easily upload files to whatever bucket you like.
Each file uploading is done in a separate thread so the UI won't be blocked and one can upload any number of files concurrently. It's been tested with binary files of up to 62GB, haven't had a chance to try anything larger yet.
Building the App
Prerequisites
- Python2.7 (hasn't been tested in anything else)
- Tkinter/ttk (should already be installed in a standard Python)
- Boto3
- Py2App
Building a standalone app on OSX using py2app
Run make
This builds the app into the dist/ directory.
You'll want to make sure you have a configuration file located at ~/s3_uploader.cfg.
Double click the new app in the dist/ directory to launch it.
Running directly using Python
You can run the s3_uploader directly using Python on the command line:
python s3_uploader.py
Configuration
There's a sample configuration file s3_uploader.cfg.sample that can be copied and used as the starting point for the configurations. Make sure you update the aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key values. Add a list of s3 buckets for the pulldown by entering a comma separated list of bucket names as s3_buckets.
Alternatively you should be able to make a similar section called [s3_uploader] in any other file (including the ~/.aws/credentials)
By default the app looks for the ~/s3_uploader.cfg file for the configurations, however you should be able to open a different configuration file by going to File > Open Config from the menubar.
TODO
- Get things to work with py2exe or pyinstaller to build a windows app