Tasker

You know Ansible right? Well, this works kind of the same way, except you create tasks to automate your local computer.

How? You're in luck. Just create an InstructionSet (you can use the CLI command tasker create to get started) and let your life get easier!

Index

• Tasker
  • Index
  • Installation
  • Reference System
  • Key Features
    • Copy Action
    • Zip Action
    • Delete Action
    • Move Action
    • Input Action
    • Echo Action
    • Request Action
    • Registry Action
    • Custom Action
  • Usage
  • Roadmap
    • Actions in Pipeline
    • General Improvements
  • Support

For more detailed information visit the Documentation

Installation

There are 2 ways of installation:

1. Via source files available at GitHub.
2. Using Pip

$ pip install pyTasker

Reference System

Tasker includes a reference system which allows the user to access values from a previous step and/or value, like the Input Action. References are a way to simplify the InstructionSets.

To get started with references simply use $<Step Number> or $<Step Number>.<Field Name> on a field. If no additional data is appended to the reference, like $0, the system will fallback to the key where reference was invoked.

Example:

{
    "name": "<Step Name>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "input",
    "question": "<Question Value>"
},
{
    "name": "<Step Name>",
    "step": 1,
    "operation": "zip",
    "target": "*",
    "rename": "$0.value",
    "!deflate": true,
    "!destination": "<Destination Path>",
    "subfolders": true
}

Key Features

For extra information use tasker -h

Copy Action

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "copy",
    "target": "<File(s) or File Type>",
    "origin": "<Location Path>",
    "destination": "<Location End Path>",
    "subfolders": false //Should Tasker also include subfolders inside main location
}

Zip Action

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "zip",
    "target": "<Location Path>",
    "rename": "<Name of Zip file>",
    "!destination": "<Name of Zip file>",
    "!deflate": false, //When Zip is created should the Folder structure be with current system Path or just the pretended folder
    "subfolders": true //Should Tasker also include subfolders inside main location
}

Delete Action

Warning: This permanently deletes the file(s) from computer

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "delete",
    "destination": "<Location to delete files>",
    "target": "<File(s) or File Type>", //Can use location + file name/type
}

Move Action

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "move",
    "origin": "<File(s) or File Type>", //Can use location + file name/type
    "destinaton": "<File(s) or File Type>", //Can use location + file name/type
    "target": "<File(s) or File Type>" //Can use location + file name/type
}

Input Action

This action stores the Answer in the value variable

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "input",
    "question": "<Question to prompt the user>"
}

Echo Action

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "input",
    "value": "<Value to output to console>"
}

Request Action

This action stores the Response in the response variable

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "request",
    "endpoint": "<URL to query>",
    "method": "<get | post | put | delete>", //Must be only 1 option
    "!body": {}, //Optional parameter
    "!headers": {} //Optional Parameter
}

Registry Action

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "registry",
    "start_key": "<classes-root | current-user | current-config | local-machine | users>",
    "key": "<path to the key>",
    "function": "<get | set | create | backup>",
    "type": "<sz | multisz | none | binary | dword | qword>",
    "value": "<data>",
    "rename": "<file name for backup>"
}

Custom Action

Allows the usage of Custom Extension when created via the tasker extension -n <Name of Extension> command

{
    "name": "<Name of Step>",
    "step": 0,
    "operation": "custom",
    "extension_name": ""
}

Step parameter is the order Tasker will pick up the tasks

Parameters starting with "!" are optional parameters

Usage

Roadmap

This is a project I'm working on my free time, however I have some new Actions in mind I want to implement.

Actions in Pipeline

• Input Action
• Command Action
• Encrypt Action
• Registry Action (for Windows)

General Improvements

• Change reference system

Support