API - File operations

💻 Development
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Hello community,

I would like to know more on the API, to do some operations, via script (i.e. PHP) like:

  • Create folder
  • Copy file
  • Rename file
  • Set file and/or folder permissions

Would anyone send me some info and/or documentation on how that could be achieved.

Thanks in advance.

2

Hi there,

WebDAV is the API we are using for File operations :wink: … What do you exactly want to do?

Greetings

Marius

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Hi MariusBluem,

First of all, thank you for your reply.

We would like to do what was mencioned, first just to know and interact with the platform.

  • Create folder (create a shared folder via script)
  • Copy file (origin and destination via script)
  • Rename file
  • Set file and/or folder permissions (change them via script)

Nothing too fancy in a way that allow us to get better understanding of the platform.

Thank you.

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Everything you said there (except for the filefoder permissions) can easily be done via webdav. Just let your program/script/etc create a folder in dav://yournextcloud/ instead of C:/.

A file Renaming could quite easily be done then by calling something like:

mv dav://yournextcloud/folder/filenameold.jpg dav://yournextcloud/folder/filenamenew.jpg

I am sure, almost every Script/Programming Language can handle webdav, if it can handle file operations.

For the permissions, I would create special NextCloud Folders with the Share Permissions to the groups/users and let my script create files insider there, again via webdav.