Python WebDAV Client 3

Package webdavclient3 based on https://github.com/designerror/webdav-client-python but uses requests instead of PyCURL. It provides easy way to work with WebDAV-servers.

Installation

$ pip install webdavclient3

Sample Usage

from webdav3.client import Client
options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "login",
 'webdav_password': "password"
}
client = Client(options)
client.verify = False # To not check SSL certificates (Default = True)
client.session.proxies(...) # To set proxy directly into the session (Optional)
client.session.auth(...) # To set proxy auth directly into the session (Optional)
client.execute_request("mkdir", 'directory_name')

Webdav API

Webdav API is a set of webdav actions of work with cloud storage. This set includes the following actions: check, free, info, list, mkdir, clean, copy, move, download, upload, publish and unpublish.

Configuring the client

Required key is host name or IP address of the WevDAV-server with param name webdav_hostname.
For authentication in WebDAV server use webdav_login, webdav_password.
For an anonymous login do not specify auth properties.

from webdav3.client import Client

options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "login",
 'webdav_password': "password"
}
client = Client(options)

If your server does not support HEAD method or there are other reasons to override default WebDAV methods for actions use a dictionary option webdav_override_methods. The key should be in the following list: check, free, info, list, mkdir, clean, copy, move, download, upload, publish and unpublish. The value should a string name of WebDAV method, for example GET.

from webdav3.client import Client

options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "login",
 'webdav_password': "password",
 'webdav_override_methods': {
            'check': 'GET'
        }

}
client = Client(options)

For configuring a requests timeout you can use an option webdav_timeout with int value in seconds, by default the timeout is set to 30 seconds.

from webdav3.client import Client

options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "login",
 'webdav_password': "password",
 'webdav_timeout': 30
}
client = Client(options)

When a proxy server you need to specify settings to connect through it.

from webdav3.client import Client
options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "w_login",
 'webdav_password': "w_password", 
 'proxy_hostname':  "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
 'proxy_login':     "p_login",
 'proxy_password':  "p_password"
}
client = Client(options)

If you want to use the certificate path to certificate and private key is defined as follows:

from webdav3.client import Client
options = {
 'webdav_hostname': "https://webdav.server.ru",
 'webdav_login':    "w_login",
 'webdav_password': "w_password",
 'cert_path':       "/etc/ssl/certs/certificate.crt",
 'key_path':        "/etc/ssl/private/certificate.key"
}
client = Client(options)

Or you want to limit the speed or turn on verbose mode:

options = {
 ...
 'recv_speed' : 3000000,
 'send_speed' : 3000000,
 'verbose'    : True
}
client = Client(options)

recv_speed: rate limit data download speed in Bytes per second. Defaults to unlimited speed.
send_speed: rate limit data upload speed in Bytes per second. Defaults to unlimited speed.
verbose: set verbose mode on/off. By default verbose mode is off.

Also if your server does not support check it is possible to disable it:

options = {
 ...
 'disable_check': True
}
client = Client(options)

By default, checking of remote resources is enabled.

For configuring chunk size of content downloading use chunk_size param, by default it is 65536

options = {
 ...
 'chunk_size': 65536
}
client = Client(options)

Synchronous methods

# Checking existence of the resource

client.check("dir1/file1")
client.check("dir1")

# Get information about the resource

client.info("dir1/file1")
client.info("dir1/")

# Check free space

free_size = client.free()

# Get a list of resources

files1 = client.list()
files2 = client.list("dir1")
files3 = client.list("dir1", get_info=True) # returns a list of dictionaries with files details

# Create directory

client.mkdir("dir1/dir2")

# Delete resource

client.clean("dir1/dir2")

# Copy resource

client.copy(remote_path_from="dir1/file1", remote_path_to="dir2/file1")
client.copy(remote_path_from="dir2", remote_path_to="dir3")

# Move resource

client.move(remote_path_from="dir1/file1", remote_path_to="dir2/file1")
client.move(remote_path_from="dir2", remote_path_to="dir3")

# Download a resource

client.download_sync(remote_path="dir1/file1", local_path="~/Downloads/file1")
client.download_sync(remote_path="dir1/dir2/", local_path="~/Downloads/dir2/")

# Upload resource

client.upload_sync(remote_path="dir1/file1", local_path="~/Documents/file1")
client.upload_sync(remote_path="dir1/dir2/", local_path="~/Documents/dir2/")

# Publish the resource

link = client.publish("dir1/file1")
link = client.publish("dir2")

# Unpublish resource

client.unpublish("dir1/file1")
client.unpublish("dir2")

# Exception handling

from webdav3.client import WebDavException
try:
...
except WebDavException as exception:
...

# Get the missing files

client.pull(remote_directory='dir1', local_directory='~/Documents/dir1')

# Send missing files

client.push(remote_directory='dir1', local_directory='~/Documents/dir1')

Asynchronous methods

# Load resource

kwargs = {
 'remote_path': "dir1/file1",
 'local_path':  "~/Downloads/file1",
 'callback':    callback
}
client.download_async(**kwargs)

kwargs = {
 'remote_path': "dir1/dir2/",
 'local_path':  "~/Downloads/dir2/",
 'callback':    callback
}
client.download_async(**kwargs)

# Unload resource

kwargs = {
 'remote_path': "dir1/file1",
 'local_path':  "~/Downloads/file1",
 'callback':    callback
}
client.upload_async(**kwargs)

kwargs = {
 'remote_path': "dir1/dir2/",
 'local_path':  "~/Downloads/dir2/",
 'callback':    callback
}
client.upload_async(**kwargs)

Resource API

Resource API using the concept of OOP that enables cloud-level resources.

# Get a resource

res1 = client.resource("dir1/file1")

# Work with the resource

res1.rename("file2")
res1.move("dir1/file2")
res1.copy("dir2/file1")
info = res1.info()
res1.read_from(buffer)
res1.read(local_path="~/Documents/file1")
res1.read_async(local_path="~/Documents/file1", callback)
res1.write_to(buffer)
res1.write(local_path="~/Downloads/file1")
res1.write_async(local_path="~/Downloads/file1", callback)

For Contributors

Prepare development environment

1. Install docker on your development machine
2. Start WebDAV server for testing by following commands from the project's root folder or change path to conf dir in second command to correct:

docker pull bytemark/webdav
docker run -d --name webdav -e AUTH_TYPE=Basic -e USERNAME=alice -e PASSWORD=secret1234 -v conf:/usr/local/apache2/conf -p 8585:80 bytemark/webdav

Code convention

Please check your code according PEP8 Style guides.

Run tests

1. Check that webdav container is started on your local machine
2. Execute following command in the project's root folder:

python -m unittest discover -s tests

Prepare a Pull Request

Please use this check list before creating PR:

1. You code should be formatted according PEP8
2. All tests should successfully pass
3. Your changes shouldn't change previous default behaviour, exclude defects
4. All changes are covered by tests

Releasing

Releases follow a git-flow style: create branch release/X.Y.Z from develop, update version in pyproject.toml, merge into master, then create and push tag vX.Y.Z. GitHub Actions publishes to PyPI on tag push.

Required: In the repository Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions, add a secret PYPI_API_TOKEN with a PyPI API token (create at pypi.org/manage/account/token/). Alternatively, configure Trusted Publishing on PyPI and remove the password input from .github/workflows/publish.yml.