SecureData

A library that allows for easy reading/writing of settings across repositories, as well as mail and logging.

Author

• Tyler Woodfin
  • GitHub
  • Website

Features

• Get/Set data within a JSON file in the location of your choice
• Sync with cloud providers using custom commands
• Log to a file/directory of your choice without having to configure logger each time
• Send/receive mail

Structure

• Data is stored in settings.json
• Logs are written to /path/to/securedata/log by default

Installation and Setup

  python3 -m pip install securedata

  securedata config

Configuration

• To choose where settings.json is stored, use securedata config

• To choose where logs will be stored, edit settings.json and set path -> log to the full path to the log folder. (in other words, {"path": "log": "/path/to/folder"})

cloud syncing

• Set settings.json -> path -> securedata -> {sync-pull/sync-push}, like this example:

# example only; these commands will be unique to your cloud syncing setup

# if set, pull commands will be used before loading `settings.json` if `sync` is True; pull and push commands will be used before and after `setItem` if `sync` is True

{
  "path": {
    "securedata": {
      "sync-pull": "rclone sync Dropbox:SecureData /home/{username}/securedata",
      "sync-push": "rclone copy /home/{username}/securedata Dropbox:SecureData"
    }
  }
}

setItem("test", "123") # will not sync, because `sync` is not true
setItem("test", "123", sync=True) # will sync if the properties above are set
getItem("test") # will not pull from cloud before returning, because `sync` is not true
getItem("test", sync=True) # will pull from cloud before returning

editFile

• see example below to enable something like securedata edit shopping from the terminal
  • or securedata.editFile("shopping"), rather than securedata.editFile("/home/{username}/path/to/shopping.md")
• if sync-push and set-pull are set, pull commands will be used before loading the file; push commands will be used after saving
• each shortcut should have a value (full path to the file)
  • to enable syncing, each shortcut should also have sync set to true

# example only; these commands will be unique to your cloud syncing setup

{
  "path": {
    "edit": {
      "shopping": {
        "value": "/home/{username}/path/to/shopping.md",
        "sync": true
      },
      "todo": {
        "value": "/home/{username}/path/to/todo.md",
        "sync": false
      }
      "sync-pull": "rclone sync Dropbox:SecureData /home/{username}/securedata",
      "sync-push": "rclone copy /home/{username}/securedata Dropbox:SecureData"
    }
  }
}

mail

• It is NEVER a good idea to store your password in plaintext; for this reason, I strongly recommend a "throwaway" account that is only used for sending emails
• Gmail (as of May 2022) and most other mainstream email providers won't work with this; for support, search for sending mail from your email provider with smtplib.
• In settings.json, add the email object to make your settings file look like this example:

{
    "email": {
        "from": "throwaway@example.com",
        "from_pw": "example",
        "from_name": "Raspberry Pi",
        "to": "destination@protonmail.com",
        "smtp_server": "example.com",
        "imap_server": "example.com",
        "port": 123
    }
}

Examples

setItem

from securedata import securedata

securedata.setItem("employee", "Tyler", "salary", 7.25)

results in this structure in settings.json:

{
    "employee": {
        "Tyler": {
            "salary": 7.25
        }
    }
}

getItem

from securedata import securedata

print(securedata.getItem("employee", "Tyler", "salary")) # given example settings.json above

> python3 test.py
> 7.25

editFile

from securedata import securedata

# if setItem("path", "edit", "shopping", "/path/to/shopping.md") has been called, this will edit the file
# assigned to that shortcut.

# opens file in Vim, saves upon exit
securedata.editFile("shopping")

# or you can edit a file directly...
securedata.editFile("/path/to/shopping.md")

# set path -> edit -> sync-pull and path -> edit -> sync-push to specify commands that should be run for cloud integration.

mail

from securedata import mail

mail.send('Test Subject', 'Test Body')

log

from securedata import securedata

# writes to a file named LOG_DAILY YYYY-MM-DD in the default log folder (or securedata.getItem('path', 'log')) inside a YYYY-MM-DD folder

securedata.log("Dear Diary...")
securedata.log("This function hit a breakpoint", level="debug")
securedata.log("Looks like the server is on fire", level="critical")
securedata.log("This is fine", level="info")

# writes to a file named LOG_TEMPERATURE

securedata.log("30", logName="LOG_TEMPERATURE")

# writes to a file named LOG_TEMPERATURE in /home/{username}/weather

securedata.log("30", logName="LOG_TEMPERATURE", filePath="/home/{username}/weather")

    # format
    # 2021-12-29 19:29:27,896 — INFO — 30

Dependencies

• Python >= 3.6
• smtplib

Disclaimers

• Although I've done quite a bit of testing, I can't guarantee everything that works on my machine will work on yours. Always back up your data to multiple places to avoid data loss.
• If you find any issues, please contact me... or get your hands dirty and raise a PR!