This creates a connection so that you can interact with the server:
import cloudfiles
username = 'account_name:username'
api_key = 'your_api_key'
conn = cloudfiles.get_connection(
username=username,
api_key=api_key,
authurl='https://objects.dreamhost.com/auth',
)
This creates a new container called my-new-container:
container = conn.create_container('my-new-container')
This creates a file hello.txt from the file named my_hello.txt:
obj = container.create_object('hello.txt')
obj.content_type = 'text/plain'
obj.load_from_filename('./my_hello.txt')
This gets a list of containers that you own, and prints out the container name:
for container in conn.get_all_containers():
print container.name
The output will look something like this:
mahbuckat1
mahbuckat2
mahbuckat3
This gets a list of objects in the container, and prints out each object’s name, the file size, and last modified date:
for obj in container.get_objects():
print "{0}\t{1}\t{2}".format(obj.name, obj.size, obj.last_modified)
The output will look something like this:
myphoto1.jpg 251262 2011-08-08T21:35:48.000Z
myphoto2.jpg 262518 2011-08-08T21:38:01.000Z
This downloads the object hello.txt and saves it in ./my_hello.txt:
obj = container.get_object('hello.txt')
obj.save_to_filename('./my_hello.txt')
Note
The container must be empty! Otherwise the request won’t work!
conn.delete_container(container.name)