1.1 Installation

pip install ipgdrive

1.2 Setup

To enable Google Drive access, follow the instructions here to create a service account with Google Drive access, and create a json key file for it.

Don’t forget to follow all the above instructions, including sharing your spreadsheet with an email you have in your json_key['client_email'] (Otherwise you’ll get a SpreadsheetNotFound or an APIError with "PERMISSION_DENIED" exception when trying to open it).

Place this file in the ~/.config/ipgdrive/ folder, and rename it to google_drive_service_account_key.json.

Additionally, create a cfg.json file inside the ~/.config/ipgdrive/ folder, and populate it with the following values:

{
    "spreadsheet_name": "my_server_public_ip",
    "username": "momo",
    "freq_minutes": 5
}

The username is for the user running the process on the server, NOT the Google account username.

1.3 Use

# after setting up ~/.config/ipgdrive/cfg.json
# setup a cronjob to write the public ip address to
# Google doc every 5 minutes
ipgdrive setupjob -m 5

1.4 Contributing

Package author and current maintainer is Shay Palachy (shay.palachy@gmail.com); You are more than welcome to approach him for help. Contributions are very welcomed.

git clone git@github.com:shaypal5/ipgdrive.git

cd ipgdrive
pip install -e '.[test]'

cd ipgdrive
pytest

1.5 Credits

Created by Shay Palachy (shay.palachy@gmail.com).