blobber is a simple server implementing a REST API for uploading files to Amazon S3.

Installation

Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install Python prerequisites.

Running in development mode

Run python application.py to run a development server. You must specify some required environment variables for proper functioning:

• CLIENT_USERNAME, CLIENT_PASSWORD: set to a username and password that the client must provide for authentication
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: set to your Amazon access credentials
• S3_UPLOAD_BUCKET: set to the Amazon S3 bucket where you would like to store blobs

Running in production mode

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Uploading Files

This server is expected to be used with the blobuploader client.