Create a folder and share link programatically

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Hi,
I uploaded and installed nextcloud on my subdomain. Iam the owner of the domains.
If I would like to create a new folder and share this folder (to public with a url), I can do this in nextcloud directly via mouse clicks - no problem.
So is it possible to make that programatically with php? If yes, wich steps must i do?

For example:

  1. create a folder (mkdir)
  2. register that folder somewhere…?
  3. create a public link for sharing that folder…?
  4. …?

I hope you can help me. Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards

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Really no one?

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Patience young padawan :wink:

I am by no means a php programmer, but maybe you can accomlish what you want by reading this: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/developer_manual/core/ocs-share-api.html

Note: This is for NC13, look at the specific documentation of your NC version.

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Thank you! :blush:
Sharing methods works, but i dont found methods for creating files/folders… please help me :thinking:

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just curl them in like

curl -X PUT -k -u user:pw --data-binary @D:\curl\test.txt https://domain.com/remote.php/webdav/test.txt

you could also just put the files in datadirectory and then use:

sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan

The fist possibility is the clean one. Rescanning all the time is not recommended for performannce reasons.

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Thats exactly what iam searching for. Many thanks ! :+1:t2:

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Hey, would you mind sharing the curl command you used for creating the shares as well, or the whole script you made in the end? :slight_smile:

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Quite old topic, but it could help someone looking arround with the keywords. :wink:

There’s an up-to-date python library now tested on NextCloud 28:

creating a folder and share it:

import sys
from nc_py_api import (
    FilePermissions,
    Nextcloud,
    ShareType,
)           

username = "admin"
password = "your_password"
nextcloud_url = "https://your.nextcloud.url"
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    nc = Nextcloud(nextcloud_url=nextcloud_url, nc_auth_user=username, nc_auth_pass=password)
    
    share_with = sys.argv[1]
    new_folder_path = f"/some_path/{share_with}"
    nc.files.mkdir(new_folder_path)
    nc.files.sharing.create(path=new_folder_path,
                            share_type=ShareType.TYPE_USER,
                            share_with=share_with,
                            )

hope that helps.