Help with the External scripts App

jakob1 · May 3, 2019, 5:49am

Hi,
I want to reduce the image quality of every image, but nothing happens.

I can use the command in the bash, the file is there but the size stays the same.

Is there a logfile?

What’s wrong with the config?

Thanks!

j-ed · May 3, 2019, 8:20am

I’ve personally not using the app, but I would like to mention the following points which might help you solving your issue:

Instead of directly executing a command you could use a bash script as a wrapper for debug purposes. Alternatively you can append an output redirection to the command to be executed, like >> /tmp/name-of-the trace-file.log to catch its screen writing.
If you want to trace what a bash script is doing, you could insert the following lines at the beginning of the script:
```
#/bin/sh
exec 2>/tmp/name-of-the trace-file.log
set -x
...
```
The command/script is most likely executed with the execution rights of the user under which the web server is running, e.g. www-data or wwwrun. So you have to make sure that it can execute the command and is allowed to write to the desired file/directory etc.
You’re providing a file name without a path, it might be possible to you have to provide a file path too to allow the script to find the file.
Nextcloud relies on file information stored in its database, so you most likely have to make sure that the information is updated if the file is replaced on the file layer. See occ files:scan --path=PATH for further information.

Just my 2ct …

jakob1 · May 8, 2019, 10:46am

Hi @j-ed,
thanks.
But it’s not working.
I trigger a shellscript which writes the current time to a logfile on every upload greater then 1 MB.
I can trigger the shellscript in the bash with

sudo -u www-data /tmp/script.sh

and its working.

But after an upload > 1 MB nothing happend.

Any other ideas?

Thanks and regards!

j-ed · May 8, 2019, 11:59am

As written in the description of the app, the execution of the rules is not controlled by the app but Nextcloud. This means it will only be executed if the default Nextcloud cron command is executed (e.g. /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/htdocs/nextcloud/cron.php).
I just did some quick tests and it worked as expected.

byographic · May 8, 2019, 2:43pm

Hi, I’m new to the forum, I would like to achieve something slightly different:

I have a rule in Workflow -> Automated tagging that tags certain files by looking to specific filenames
i would like to move/copy all the tagged files to a different directory, any suggestion?

thanks

j-ed · May 8, 2019, 3:28pm

@byographic Just do it so. What do you want me to tell you?

byographic · May 8, 2019, 8:16pm

Any help, how to set up the script, because I’ve tried something like cp /files/documents…
But is not working

jakob1 · May 9, 2019, 6:28am

Thanks. It’s working now!

Executing
sudo -u www-data php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php
was the solution.

Script:

script.sh:
#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/jpegoptim -m90 /var/nc_data"$1"
/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --path="$1"

Works fine for me!

j-ed · May 9, 2019, 7:02am

@byographic It should work fine, as long as you make sure that the system cron job is executed as mentioned before. This is e.g. a working example which I used to move a tagged image file to a separate folder:

mv -v /var/www/htdocs/nextcloud/data/%n /var/www/htdocs/nextcloud/data/%o/files/Pictures/2019/ >> /tmp/nc-exec-external-script.log

jakob1 · June 23, 2020, 7:40am

How to auto compress videos:

Dateiname entspricht: /.*.mp4$/i
Run script: /tmp/script.sh %n %o

Script:
#/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i /var/nc_data"$1" -vf scale=-2:720:flags=lanczos /var/nc_data"$1"_comp_720.mp4
/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --path="$1"

okom3pom · February 20, 2023, 10:28am

Hello @jakob1

Thank you for your messages that helped me a lot.

Sincerely

My script plesk 25 :

#/bin/bash
convert -resize 50% /xxxxx/data/"$1" /xxxxx/data/"$1"
/opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /xxxxx/occ files:scan --all

ernolf · February 21, 2023, 2:52am

Hi @okom3pom

I noticed that you’re running the occ files:scan --all command after modifying a single file. While this command does rescan all user files in the Nextcloud instance, it may not be necessary if you’re only modifying one file.

Instead, you can use the following command to scan only that single modified file:

/opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /xxxxx/occ files:scan --generate-metadata --path=/xxxxx/data/"$1"

Please note that the path should be the relative Nextcloud path, beginning with ${username}/files/, not an absolute path like /path/to/nextcloud/data/${username}/files/.

I hope this helps!