webcon 0.0.3

Control your computer from a web interface

Control your computer through shell commands from a barebones web interface.

Simple YAML-based configuration.

Installation

pip3 install webcon

Tab completion

sudo activate-global-python-argcomplete

If you installed via pip, you may need to run the following before autocompletion works:

grep 'PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK' "$(which webcon)" &>/dev/null || sudo sed -i "1a # PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK" "$(which webcon)"

Usage

usage: webcon [-h] [--host HOST] [-p PORT] [config_file]

Control your computer through shell commands from a barebones web interface.

Configuration goes in ~/.config/webcon/config.yaml, or may be provided by
command line argument. Variables in `__variables__` will be substituted once via
`str.format`.

Example configuration:

__variables__:
    mpvfifo: ~/.local/share/mpv/fifo
mpv:
    rewind: echo seek -5 > {mpvfifo}
    play/pause: echo cycle pause > {mpvfifo}
    fast forward: echo seek 5 > {mpvfifo}
announcer:
    greet: say hello
    part: say farewell

positional arguments:
  config_file           The config file to use. Default:
                        /Users/echan/.config/webcon/config.yaml

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --host HOST           The server host. Default: 0.0.0.0
  -p PORT, --port PORT  The server port. Default: 8080