CA-uploader

A Puppeteer based file uploader for CollectiveAccess

What is this?

Currently CollectiveAccess has no REST api for uploading files for media representations. This is a workaround for that. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

The script uses Puppeteer for uploading image through the GUI of CollectiveAccess. The user must provide a csv file with image label, file name and object id.

Install

git clone https://github.com/artturimatias/CA-uploader.git
cd CA-uploader
npm install

Usage

First you need to define the address of your CA instance and user credentials. These are defined in loader.js.

// CA username
const username = "administrator";

// CA password
const password = "";

// URL of your CA instance providence login page
const login_url = "http://localhost/providence";

// URL of your CA instance object editor where you can add media representations (profile specific)
const url = 'http://localhost/providence/index.php/editor/objects/ObjectEditor/Edit/Screen41/object_id/';

// path of your local files
const path = 'files/'

// CSV filename
const filename = "links.csv"

Project contains a sample csv file (links.csv) wiht sample files. You can test with your TEST ENVIRONMENT by typing:

    node uploader.js

This should open browser and you can see how files are uploaded :)

running headless

If you want to run headless (without seeing the browser), just change this line:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: false});

to this:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: true});