Watcher

A simple application that demonstates how to use Watchdog, RQ and Redis to automatically process new files in a directory.

Setup

• Environment Setup
  • $ python3 -m venv venv
  • $ source venv/bin/activate
  • $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Install Redis server

How to use project

- $ cd watcher
- $ source venv/bin/activate
- $ python run.py --path path/of/folder/to/watch --patterns comma seperated list of patterns  e.g  python run.py --path /Users/crucifix/Desktop/watching --patterns '.jpg, .pdf'.
  * Both the --path and --patterns are optional parameters and they default to '.' and '*' respectively. '.' for current path and '*' to watch every file.

* Open another terminal and run the following commands.
- $ cd watcher
- $ source venv/bin/activate
- $ rq worker

* Open another terminal and navgiate to the folder you want to watch, try to create a file and watch the rq worker terminal execute the function process_file in utils.py.
- $ e.g cd /Users/crucifix/Desktop/watching
- $ touch data.txt

Proof

Who do I talk to

• Repo owner or admin (Tabot Kevin | [email protected])