Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by codemonkeychuck » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 1:16 AM UTC

Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3
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Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by codemonkeychuck » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 1:21 AM UTC

A very simple GUI app written in Python + Tkinter/ttk (using the boto3 python package) meant for non-technical people to upload large files to S3 buckets. It uses a config file so you can customize the credentials and the buckets that they are allowed to upload into.

It currently uses py2app to build an OSX app but it's also possible to just run the s3_uploader.py script directly to start it up.

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by cyphar » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 2:24 AM UTC

It looks like it's missing a license file. Would you mind if you specified a free software license for your project?

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by codemonkeychuck » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 3:30 AM UTC

cyphar wrote: post #3

It looks like it's missing a license file. Would you mind if you specified a free software license for your project?

Hi, I just added a MIT LICENSE file to it.

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by dyeje » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 4:17 AM UTC

Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by bpchaps » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 5:25 AM UTC

Neat. I had lots of issues with S3 about a year ago. If I had any sort of network saturation from, well, uploading files, the connection would die while keeping the files up in s3. I couldn't find any direct way to do any sort of checksums directly on S3, either, so some hackery had to be done to upload incomplete files without duplicating bandwidth. It was pretty frustrating at the time!

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 5:34 AM UTC

dyeje wrote: post #5

Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!

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Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by yanokwa » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 5:35 AM UTC

dyeje wrote: post #5

Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!

Here ya go! http://imgur.com/SoouwvS

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by ben_jones » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 6:19 AM UTC

"I hope he used python for this". Was not disappointed. Cool project OP!

Re: Show HN: A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3

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Post by minus7 » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 8:48 AM UTC

yanokwa wrote: post #8

dyeje wrote: post #5

Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!

Here ya go! http://imgur.com/SoouwvS

Add a gif/webm of it in action to your readme. That will make it a lot easier and nicer to see what it's doing.