Babycam is a simple command line script for watching files for changes and emailing the appended content. It can be used to keep an eye on error logs and email you when an error pops up. Babycam works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.
babycam is not yet on PyPI, so install with:
pip install https://github.com/luhn/babycam/archive/v1.0.1.tar.gzusage: babycam [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [--ssl] [--tls] [--user USER]
[--password PASSWORD] [--poll-frequency POLL_FREQUENCY]
[--sender SENDER] [--data-dir DATA_DIR]
recipient file [file ...]
Watch a file for changes.
positional arguments:
recipient The email address to send notices to.
file The file(s) to watch.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--host HOST The SMTP host.
--port PORT The SMTP port.
--ssl Use SMTP over SSL.
--tls Upgrade to TLS once connected.
--user USER The SMTP username.
--password PASSWORD The SMTP password.
--poll-frequency POLL_FREQUENCY
The frequency (in seconds) to poll the files.
--sender SENDER The email address to use as a from address. Defaults
to {user}@{hostname}
--data-dir DATA_DIR The directory to store application data. Defaults to
the directory of the file.
For example:
babycam \
--host mailtrap.io \
--port 465 \
--tls \
--user 29958a97d6cf2a800 \
--password db61946a6311c3 \
--poll-frequency 1 \
[email protected] \
file1.txt file2.txtIf you append content to file2.txt, you'll get an email like the following:
The file /Users/Luhn/Code/babycam/file2.txt has changed!
Timestamp: 2015-02-16T15:02:25.152958
See attached file for details.
Attached to this email is a text file of the appended content.
Babycam makes a small file called .[filename].babycam in the same directory
as the watched file, in order to keep track of changes, so it must have write
permissions to that directory. If this is not feasable, you can change the
directory babycam writes to using the --data-dir argument.
If you wish to truncate a file Babycam is watching, be sure to delete the
corresponding .babycam file, otherwise addendums to the truncated file will
not be detected.
It's often desirable to run Babycam as a daemon. To achieve this, use software such as Supervisor.
- Add support for
inotifyso we can avoid the overhead of polling. - Better behavior when the file is modified rather than being appended.
- Support truncating files without having to delete the
.babycamfile.
- Support truncating files without having to delete the
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent