Related links
Command line utility APIs
- Account configuration
- Get Server address
- Validate Account
- Upload
- Download
- Timeline download
- Search
- Version details
- Properties
- Status
- Create directory
- Copy and paste
- Delete
- Trash
- Rename
- Listing
- Events
- Display Quota
- Regulate bandwidth usage
- Pause / Resume upload operation
- Know the size of a particular folder / drive / volume
- Verify upload / download rate of transfer
Developer Resources
Listing
List file(s) / folder(s) on your IDrive account.There are two ways to list files in your IDrive account.
1. List only first level file(s) / folder(s) hierarchy from the specified path
You can use --auth-list parameter to list only first level file(s) / folder(s) hierarchy from the specified path.
Syntax:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file=<account password> --auth-list <username>@<server address>::ibackup/<specify the path for listing the file(s) / folder(s)>
- --password-file=PATH_OF_PSWD_FILE
Reads account password from the specified file. Alternately, you can directly set the password using --password-file=<account password> - Username
IDrive username. If you do not have a valid username Sign up with IDrive. - Server address
Use GetServerAddress API to retrieve the IDrive server address.
Code:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --auth-list john@<server address>::ibackup/
Code:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --auth-list john@<server address>::ibackup/C/Images/
2. Use Search API to list all file(s) / folder(s) from the specified location.
- Code / Output management
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This section explains you about the sample code execution and the output generated during listing.
To list first level file(s) / folder(s) form the folder “/C/Images/” on your IDrive account:The above-mentioned code can be executed using any programming language across any platform (Windows, Mac and Linux).Code:idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --auth-list john@<server address>::ibackup/C/Images/
Output:Sample XML output:<item restype="D" size="4096" file_ver="-" mod_time="2011/07/15 11:43:01" thumb="0" fname="="/C/Images"/>
<item restype="F" size="4096" file_ver="1" mod_time="2011/07/15 11:43:01" thumb="0" fname="="/C/Images/Image1.jpg"/>Description:The following details are displayed during listing operation:- restype
Describes whether the resource is a folder or a file. - size
Size of the particular file - file_ver
Latest version available for the particular file - mod_time
Modified date / time of the file - thumb
To identify if the image file has a thumbnail display - fname
File / Folder name
You can make use of I / O redirection methods for redirecting IDrive EVS command line utility (idevsutil) output.
Refer code repository for more details on usage / implementation. - restype