getskua 0.13.0

Shareable URLs for notebook outputs — record any chart, DataFrame, or figure into a live link

Skua

Shareable URLs for notebook outputs

One function call turns plots, DataFrames, and text into permanent links. Re-run the cell to update — same URL, fresh results.

Installation

pip install getskua

No setup required. No account, no API key.

Quick Start

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import skua

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 9])
ax.set_title("Quadratic Growth")

result = skua.record(fig, title="Quadratic Growth")
print(result.url)  # https://skua.dev/r/abc123

Share the URL with anyone. Call skua.record() again with the same title to update the record in place — handy for iterating, and also the simplest way to change visibility.

To group related records together, open a named collection and record into it:

q3 = skua.collection("Q3 Review")
q3.record(fig, title="Quadratic Growth")
q3.record(df, title="Sales Data")
print(q3.url)  # https://skua.dev/c/xyz789 — share the whole collection at once

CLI

Works with any tool that can run shell commands — AI coding assistants, CI pipelines, scripts.

skua record chart.png --title "Q3 Revenue"
skua record data.csv --title "Sales Data" --public --tags "finance,q3"
skua record plot.json --title "Interactive Chart" --collection "Q3 Review"
cat report.txt | skua record - --type text --title "Analysis"

Use --json for machine-readable output:

skua record chart.png --title "Chart" --json
# {"url": "https://skua.dev/r/abc123", "id": "abc123", "visibility": "public"}

Other commands:

skua login           # open browser to verify email
skua verify sk_...   # paste the token from the verification email
skua status          # show current auth state (verified / anonymous, username)
skua list            # list your records
skua open <id>       # open a record URL in the browser

Supported Types

Skua auto-detects the object type and picks the right serializer:

• Matplotlib figures — high-DPI PNG
• Plotly figures — fully interactive (zoom, pan, hover, export)
• Pandas DataFrames — sortable, filterable tables
• Polars DataFrames — same interactive tables (LazyFrames collected automatically)
• NumPy arrays — rendered as tables
• PIL Images — saved as PNG
• Lists of dicts — rendered as tables (handy for HuggingFace pipelines, eval loops)
• PyTorch / TensorFlow tensors — image tensors as PNG, others as tables
• Anything else — falls back to string representation

API

skua.record(obj, title, description=None, visibility=None, tags=None)

Capture and share a Python object. Returns a Record with .url and .metadata. In Jupyter, the original object is displayed inline.

Bare calls write to your per-user Default collection — the catch-all bucket when you don't pick a named one.

• visibility — "public", "unlisted", or "private". Defaults to the collection's default visibility, or "unlisted" if the collection has none set.
  • public — listed on your profile, URL shareable, discoverable.
  • unlisted — URL works for anyone, but not listed on your profile.
  • private — only you can view (requires a verified account).
• tags — optional list of strings for categorization (max 20 tags, 30 chars each). Displayed on the record page and profile listing.

Re-calling record() with the same (collection, title) updates the existing record in place — including its visibility.

skua.collection(name, visibility=None)

Open a named collection scope. Returns a Collection handle whose .record(...) writes into that collection. Calling twice with the same name returns the same handle.

• name — collection name (max 100 chars). Whitespace is trimmed.
• visibility — creation hint for the collection's default visibility. Persisted server-side on first creation; calls with a conflicting visibility on a previously-created collection raise ConfigurationError rather than silently override.

proj = skua.collection("Q3 Review")
proj.record(fig, title="Lift over time")
print(proj.url)  # /c/<id> — shareable as one bundle

skua.login()

Open the browser to verify your email. Verified accounts get 365-day retention (vs 30 days for anonymous), no per-account record cap, and a public profile page at skua.dev/u/username.

skua.auth("sk_...")

Paste the token you receive by email after skua.login().

skua.status()

Return a dict with the current auth state: {"verified": bool, "email": str | None, "username": str, "retention_days": int}. Useful in scripts that need to branch on "am I verified yet?" before recording.

skua.open_profile()

Open your profile page in a browser. For verified users, mints a short-lived one-click login URL so the browser lands already signed in (unlisted and private records visible). For anonymous users, opens the bare public profile URL. Returns the URL. Pass open_browser=False to just get the URL back (CI/headless).

Environment

All infrastructure-level settings are read from environment variables (rarely needed):

• SKUA_API_URL — API host (default: https://api.skua.dev)
• SKUA_WEB_URL — web host (default: https://skua.dev)
• SKUA_TOKEN — auth token (alternative to skua.auth() / ~/.skua/token)

Limits

Anonymous usage works out of the box:

• 30-day retention, 10 records per device, 20 uploads/hour, 10 MB per record

Verify your email to unlock:

• 365-day retention (resets on update), no per-account record cap, 10 MB per record

Privacy

public and unlisted records are accessible to anyone who has the URL — URLs contain random IDs that are not guessable, but there's no login-gated access control for these. private records are cookie/token-gated and only viewable by you. Do not record sensitive data at public or unlisted.

Documentation

Full docs, live examples, and the API reference at skua.dev/docs.

License

MIT

Support

Questions or feedback? Email [e-mail] or open an issue on GitHub.