magoja / arlobackup

A backup script form Arlo Home Security Camera

Arlo Video Backup Script

What it does

This script is a helper script to download Arlo videos. There are still some problems, but I think it is acceptable to use. Installing Selenium and Chromedriver might pull some of your hair off.

Problems

• Splinter is using forground Web browser access: Which means, it might not work if you are manipulating your machine when this script is running.
• No strict login checking: Login might not work, but you wouldn't know.
• No checking for completing downloads: It just waits for 5 seconds and hope it has done in time.

If you have good idea to improve these things, please contact me. I would greatly appreciate.

Requirement

• Python 2.7
• Splinter (http://splinter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html)
• Chromedriver (https://devblog.supportbee.com/2014/10/27/setting-up-cucumber-to-run-with-Chrome-on-Linux/
• webdriver (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8255929/running-webdriver-chrome-with-selenium)

How to use

Prepare a cloud storage service. I used Google Photos here.

python arloBackup.py {userId} {password} -d {download folder} -u {upload folder}

# Sample
python arloBackup.py [email protected] yourpassword -d ~Downloads -u "~/Google Photos"

This basically says "Hey script. Download all yesterday's Videos with my credential. You can find them in 'Downloads' folder. Move them to '/Google Photos' folder."

Comments

I couldn't find an easy way for doing this BACKGROUND yet. If I could, I would be happy. I tried to pass their authentication system with urllib2. Apparently there are some tricks for their authentication system, I keep getting BAD REQUEST errors. I felt like that I'm wasting time, so I would go for easier solution.

Thank you.