I will monitor a directory and upload files from it. I do this by POST-ing files to the remote server (as if I was a web form). I can also look for metadata files in this directory and add POST information from them along with the file.

• node.js V6 or later

• sourceDirectory: (string) The folder to be monitored
  • IE: "/Users/evantahler/Desktop/source/"
• destinationDirectory: (string) If I am set, I will move uploaded files to this new directory after a successful upload.
• IE: "/Users/evantahler/Desktop/dest/"
• uploadHost: (string) The base URL of the upload server
• IE: "mysweetserver.example.com"
• uploadPath: (string) The "page" to upload to on the uploadHost
• IE: "/upload.php"
• uploadPort: (integer) The port to POST to on the uploadHost
  • IE: 80
• uploadFileFieldName (sting) the field name that is used to uplaod the file
  • IE: "file"
• metadataFile: (boolean) If I am true, I will not upload a file unless its corresponding metadata file is present.
  • IE: true
• metadataFileExtension: (string) The file extension expected for metadata files
  • IE: ".json"
• additionalUploadParams: (object) If there are any additional data fields that need to accompany an upload, put them here
  • IE: { password: "secret" }
• checkCycleTime: (integer) How often to check sourceDirectory for new files
  • IE: 5000
• logFolder: (string) where to keep the application's Log
  • IE: "./log/"
• logFile: (string) the name of the application's log file
  • IE: "autoUploader.log"
• maxLogFileSize: (integer) the largest the log file can get in bytes. It will be deleted and started over if it gets to large
  • IE: 100000

• Metadata files should be in the JSON format, and end with .json
• Metadata files should have the same basename as the main file
  • IE: the Metadata file for movie.mp4 would be movie.json
• An example metadata file for movie.mp4 would be something like: { "first_name":"Evan", "last_name":"Tahler", "movie_name":"My Cool Movie!" }

This is rendered to your shell and to the log file

2012-02-29 21:23:54 | Starting...
2012-02-29 21:23:54 | Checking folder: /Users/evantahler/Desktop/source/
2012-02-29 21:23:54 |   No files found
2012-02-29 21:24:09 | Checking folder: /Users/evantahler/Desktop/source/
2012-02-29 21:24:09 |   File: test.txt
2012-02-29 21:24:09 | 	Uploading: test.txt
2012-02-29 21:24:09 |   Uploaded!
2012-02-29 21:24:09 |   Files Moved
2012-02-29 21:24:14 | Checking folder: /Users/evantahler/Desktop/source/
2012-02-29 21:24:14 |   No files found

• Moving Files: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4568689/how-do-i-move-file-a-to-a-different-partition-in-node-js
• Uploading Files: http://onteria.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/multipartform-data-uploads-using-node-js-and-http-request/