I tried to tidy up some of the missing pieces of rest_uploader by releasing a new version. Command line options for destination notebook, server, port, and a fix for the temp file location on Windows installations. Any feedback appreciated!
How do I install the new version? Do I have to uninstall the old one first? Typing âpip install rest_uploaderâ in WinPythonâs Command Prompt Window gives 15 Requirement already satisfied lines. Sorry to be a Python newbie!
No worries!
pip install -U rest_uploader
oughtta do the trick.
One does indeed uninstall first!
pip uninstall rest_uploader
pip install rest_uploader. Easy!
Iâve noticed a discrepancy between the help and the github doc in the order of the command line arguments. Help has the [OPTIONS] before the PATH and github languages example has them the other way round. Oh, and on github you have two hyphens before the s and p options.
Itâs many many years since I was working on a Unix system and canât remember the rules about command line options. I donât think we had two hyphen names. However is a trailing space optional after the name or the letter? e.g. for the taging option which are correct?
-t=no
-t =no
-t no
-tno
-t no
Thanks again for the feedback!
Fixed the hyphens and made a couple other clarifications to the readme. Options can come before or after the path.
I have it working and itâs looking good, nice extra info telling us whatâs going on.
Is it by design that once you have uploaded a file âthe file is still open in Pythonâ? Once I have a file copied to JoplinProfile\resources I want to delete it in the temp\scans folder but I canât till I stop rest_uploader?
The following example will upload newly created notes to the Taxes Notebook, and OCR in German:
rest_uploader -d "Taxes" -l ger /path/to/directory
No need for "s around Taxes? (have tried with and without and both work)
no need, correct. A better example might have been âTax Documentsâ, which would require the quotes.
Not by design, no. I think I noticed it once during testing when launching from git bash on Windows but the issue didnât persist when launching from the regular Win command line, Powershell, or Linux.
I was wondering if I might like an option in rest_uploader to âmoveâ the file rather than copy it (if it got copied correctly!)
A sweep option. Yeah, that'd be a nice addition in a future version 
D:\PA.c\PortableApps\_NonPAF-StartRest_uploader>rest_uploader.exe D:\Temp\Scans -d __rest_uploaded -t no
Launching Application rest_uploader.cli.main
Endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:41184
Temp Path: C:\Users\Roger\AppData\Local\Temp
Found Notebook ID: 399d7f8404e146b885c4fb346af24bd8
Language: eng
Automatically Tag Notes? no
Desitnation Notebook: __rest_uploaded
Monitoring directory D:\Temp\Scans for files
Destination spelt wrong and colon missed off end of Monitoring Directory? (and maybe on end of Launching Application?
Ugh... spelling error 
Well I fixed it in my code but it's going to have to wait for the next version release to get the fix...
Thanks!
I have been experimenting with having Poppler and tesseract-OCR in the PATH. It seems rest_uploader doesnât complain if Tesseract-OCR isnât in the PATH but does complain if Poppler isnât. Would it be possible to check for the presence of Poppler early so you could output an error message immediately rather than having many lines of errors before suggesting Poppler isnât installed? No bigee, just a thought.
Specify a different upload notebook by specifying a destination from the command line using -d or --destination
Oops?
F:\rest_uploader>rest_uploader.exe F:\Temp\Scans -d _rest_uploaded -t no
Usage: rest_uploader [OPTIONS] PATH
Try 'rest_uploader --help' for help.Error: no such option: -d
F:\rest_uploader>
and
F:\rest_uploader>rest_uploader.exe F:\Temp\Scans --destination _rest_uploaded -t no
Usage: rest_uploader [OPTIONS] PATH
Try 'rest_uploader --help' for help.Error: no such option: --destination
F:\rest_uploader>
Sorry. My Oops, somehow I was running 1.5.0
[Edit] I was running on another flash drive where I hadnât updated rest_uploader (the clue was in F:)
Iâve finished testing now and want to thank you for your help in getting this going and for creating it.
It is superb! Now to start scanning and uploading a mountain of paperwork.
Here is my portable one-click program for anyone else that would like to run portably.
; File: Start_rest_uploader.au3 v1.0 2020-05-14
;
; Allows rest_uploader to be run from a shortcut portably
; i.e drive letter change is handled
; and env PATH is put back when finished
$iniFile = "Start_rest_uploader.ini"
$drive = StringLeft(@ScriptDir, 2)
$programPath = $drive & IniRead($iniFile, "section", "programPath", "")
$tesseractPath = $drive & IniRead($iniFile, "section", "tesseractPath", "")
$popplerPath = $drive & IniRead($iniFile, "section", "popplerPath", "")
$sourcePath = $drive & IniRead($iniFile, "section", "sourcePath", "")
$options = IniRead($iniFile, "section", "options", "")
EnvSet( "PATH", EnvGet("PATH") & $popplerPath & ';' _
& $tesseractPath & ';' ) ; not needed?
Run ( $programPath ) ; WinPython's cmd.bat
$winTitle = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe"
WinWaitActive ( $winTitle)
$arguments = $sourcePath & ' ' & $options
Send ( "rest_uploader.exe " & $arguments & "{Enter}" ) ; as though we typed it
WinWaitClose ( $winTitle ) ; so Env PATH doesn't get put back as it was till we exit
Exit
; File: Start_rest_uploader.ini v1.0 2020-05-14
;
[Section]
programPath = \Progs\WPy64-3770\scripts\cmd.bat
tesseractPath = \Progs\Tesseract-OCR
popplerPath = \Progs\Poppler-0.68.0\bin
sourcePath = \Temp\Scans
options = --destination rest_uploaded --autotag no
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Thanks, and I appreciate the feedback - glad youâre enjoying it!
Just as a point of clarification for portable WinPython users, if one looks in the file WPy64-3770\scripts\cmd.bat that I run you see it calls env_for_icons.bat which in turn calls env.bat which does all the Python related PATH additions for the duration of my run (and they get removed after, which is a requirement for portability)