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How to easily transfer your files to iPad with Python one liner

31 points by javinpaul 14y ago

theorique 14y ago
Nice little hack. I assume he means port 8000 in the part that reads: From your iPad, open safari and go to http://192.168.1.2:8080 http://192.168.1.2:8080 to access and download the files to your iPad. Otherwise, you are browsing on a different port and it probably won't work. (edit: Also, you need to know your computer's IP address ... mine happened to be the default one, but YMMV)
lifeisstillgood 14y ago
But where on the iPad is it stored? And can I reverse it - taking photos off iPad into my server Really backing up these devices is a closed book to me
- allenbina 14y ago
  image capture on mac should be able to do it. requires to be plugged in via usb.
mikegioia 14y ago
This is nice, and I can see the files, but I have no download option. There's a "Copy" in safari but where the heck can I save these to? EDIT: okay, figured it out. This app can do it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id348609711?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id3... You don't even need Cydia!
keyboardP 14y ago
The code in the post is for Python 2.x but if you're running Python 3.x, use this to set up a server: python -m http.server 8000
berntb 14y ago
Why not this? :-) "python -c 'import os; os.system("mv ... ~/Dropbox/from_comp_x/")' Edit: My point is -- what makes this worth up votes?!
hansc 14y ago
Thanks for sharing, great hack!
scottrogowski 14y ago
I was inspired to write a small bash script to let you know which ip exactly to go to. It is hackish due to my limited knowledge of sed but it works on my Mac at least #!/bin/bash ip=`ifconfig -r en0 inet | sed -E '/en0/d;s/inet[ \t]([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).+/\1/'` ip=`echo $ip | tr -d '[:space:]'` echo "Go to $ip:8000 in a browser on your local network. When you are done, use ctrl-c to exit" python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
tteam 14y ago
Use our Tonido server instead (http://www.tonido.com/ios/ http://www.tonido.com/ios/). Less adventurous though :-)
songgao 14y ago
My `bin/server`. It prints all ip addresses binded to the machine, and tries port numbers starting from 8000 until one is available for use: #!/usr/bin/env python2.7 import commands import subprocess port=8000 while commands.getstatusoutput('lsof -i -P|grep ":' + str(port) + '"')[1]: port = port + 1 print commands.getstatusoutput('ip addr | grep inet')[1], "\n" subprocess.call(['env', 'python2.7', '-m', 'SimpleHTTPServer', str(port)])

31 points by javinpaul 14y ago

Nice little hack. I assume he means port 8000 in the part that reads: From your iPad, open safari and go to http://192.168.1.2:8080 http://192.168.1.2:8080 to access and download the files to your iPad. Otherwise, you are browsing on a different port and it probably won't work. (edit: Also, you need to know your computer's IP address ... mine happened to be the default one, but YMMV)

lifeisstillgood 14y ago

But where on the iPad is it stored? And can I reverse it - taking photos off iPad into my server Really backing up these devices is a closed book to me

allenbina 14y ago
image capture on mac should be able to do it. requires to be plugged in via usb.

mikegioia 14y ago

This is nice, and I can see the files, but I have no download option. There's a "Copy" in safari but where the heck can I save these to? EDIT: okay, figured it out. This app can do it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id348609711?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id3... You don't even need Cydia!

keyboardP 14y ago

The code in the post is for Python 2.x but if you're running Python 3.x, use this to set up a server: python -m http.server 8000

berntb 14y ago

Why not this? :-) "python -c 'import os; os.system("mv ... ~/Dropbox/from_comp_x/")' Edit: My point is -- what makes this worth up votes?!

hansc 14y ago

Thanks for sharing, great hack!

scottrogowski 14y ago

I was inspired to write a small bash script to let you know which ip exactly to go to. It is hackish due to my limited knowledge of sed but it works on my Mac at least #!/bin/bash ip=`ifconfig -r en0 inet | sed -E '/en0/d;s/inet[ \t]([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).+/\1/'` ip=`echo $ip | tr -d '[:space:]'` echo "Go to $ip:8000 in a browser on your local network. When you are done, use ctrl-c to exit" python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

tteam 14y ago

Use our Tonido server instead (http://www.tonido.com/ios/ http://www.tonido.com/ios/). Less adventurous though :-)

songgao 14y ago

My `bin/server`. It prints all ip addresses binded to the machine, and tries port numbers starting from 8000 until one is available for use: #!/usr/bin/env python2.7 import commands import subprocess port=8000 while commands.getstatusoutput('lsof -i -P|grep ":' + str(port) + '"')[1]: port = port + 1 print commands.getstatusoutput('ip addr | grep inet')[1], "\n" subprocess.call(['env', 'python2.7', '-m', 'SimpleHTTPServer', str(port)])