Distributing documents

[CloudKnight]

I know Nextcloud documents can be password protected, you could fire up a VM and install Nextcloud.
https://nextcloud.com/

[zachary715]

We do this with OneDrive/Sharepoint and Office 365. We upload the document to OneDrive and then create a unique link and send that to whoever needs to access the file. Then I have email notifications setup whenever someone accesses the link, downloads the file, and what IP address it was accessed from.

This would not accomplish the payment capture portion. I would think this would need to be tied to whatever payment system you're using.

[JaredBusch]

Nothing does this out of the box.

THis would be a web application more than a file share. THere is too much logic required.

Potentially, you could create a Nextcloud app for this, but that is a lot of work.

If there is a payoff, then it could still be worth the development costs.

[IRJ]

I see two different solutions here. Nextcloud and eccommerce website to sell downloads. I'm assuming of course that you aren't selling hundreds of files. You can make a line item for each one using woo commerce.

[IRJ]

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/digital-downloadable-product-handling/

[Obsolesce]

Yeah, sounds like WordPress + Plugin... like IRJ pointed out with woocomerce.

[JaredBusch]

@IRJ said in Distributing documents:

I see two different solutions here. Nextcloud and eccommerce website to sell downloads. I'm assuming of course that you aren't selling hundreds of files. You can make a line item for each one using woo commerce.

Right and you would have a script on the backend call the Nextcloud API to create the unique share.
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/9/developer_manual/core/ocs-share-api.html

[JaredBusch]

Example of creating a share:
On my NC server, I have a folder Public containing the file fireball.png
Running this command

curl -u username:password -X POST 'https://nc.daerma.com/ocs/v2.php/apps/files_sharing/api/v1/shares' -H "OCS-APIRequest: true" --data 'path=/Public/fireball.png&shareType=3'

Resulted in this output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
 <meta>
  <status>ok</status>
  <statuscode>200</statuscode>
  <message>OK</message>
 </meta>
 <data>
  <id>8</id>
  <share_type>3</share_type>
  <uid_owner>sorvani</uid_owner>
  <displayname_owner>Jared Busch</displayname_owner>
  <permissions>1</permissions>
  <stime>1541652264</stime>
  <parent/>
  <expiration/>
  <token>krgNxFsrkp7PL2M</token>
  <uid_file_owner>sorvani</uid_file_owner>
  <note></note>
  <displayname_file_owner>Jared Busch</displayname_file_owner>
  <path>/Public/fireball.png</path>
  <item_type>file</item_type>
  <mimetype>image/png</mimetype>
  <storage_id>home::sorvani</storage_id>
  <storage>1</storage>
  <item_source>270897</item_source>
  <file_source>270897</file_source>
  <file_parent>51270</file_parent>
  <file_target>/fireball.png</file_target>
  <share_with/>
  <share_with_displayname/>
  <url>https://nc.daerma.com/s/krgNxFsrkp7PL2M</url>
  <mail_send>1</mail_send>
 </data>
</ocs>

Note the URL...: <url>https://nc.daerma.com/s/krgNxFsrkp7PL2M</url>

That is the newly created share link. https://nc.daerma.com/s/krgNxFsrkp7PL2M

[JaredBusch]

It can output json instead of XML. You just have to append ?format=json to the end of the GET/POST URL.

curl -u username:password -X POST 'https://nc.daerma.com/ocs/v2.php/apps/files_sharing/api/v1/shares?format=json' -H "OCS-APIRequest: true" --data 'path=/Public/fireball.png&shareType=3'

{"ocs":{"meta":{"status":"ok","statuscode":200,"message":"OK"},"data":{"id":"8","share_type":3,"uid_owner":"sorvani","displayname_owner":"Jared Busch","permissions":1,"stime":1541652264,"parent":null,"expiration":null,"token":"krgNxFsrkp7PL2M","uid_file_owner":"sorvani","note":"","displayname_file_owner":"Jared Busch","path":"\/Public\/fireball.png","item_type":"file","mimetype":"image\/png","storage_id":"home::sorvani","storage":1,"item_source":270897,"file_source":270897,"file_parent":51270,"file_target":"\/fireball.png","share_with":null,"share_with_displayname":null,"url":"https:\/\/nc.daerma.com\/s\/krgNxFsrkp7PL2M","mail_send":0}}}

[JaredBusch]

A shared document downloaded publicly does log it.

I have no idea if the backend logs have more details.

[scottalanmiller]

@StuartJordan said in Distributing documents:

I know Nextcloud documents can be password protected, you could fire up a VM and install Nextcloud.
https://nextcloud.com/

This is what we use for this.

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Distributing documents:

@StuartJordan said in Distributing documents:

I know Nextcloud documents can be password protected, you could fire up a VM and install Nextcloud.
https://nextcloud.com/

This is what we use for this.

Except the OP wants more than a basic sharing system. Hence my posts about how to create automation.

[Donahue]

@JaredBusch @scottalanmiller Is there a good tutorial on how to use NC to do this if you dont have the payment requirements? This sounds like what I have wanted for a while, but I just need the basic sharing system. Can you set time limits on the sharing?

[JaredBusch]

@Donahue said in Distributing documents:

@JaredBusch @scottalanmiller Is there a good tutorial on how to use NC to do this if you dont have the payment requirements? This sounds like what I have wanted for a while, but I just need the basic sharing system. Can you set time limits on the sharing?

I've never looked at the API in detail.

But I know you can set a global link expiration time. That should be applied, by default, even to API created links.

I would assume the API can also do it.

[JaredBusch]

In the admin settings.

[Donahue]

ok, I really need to get a NC demo going.

[scottalanmiller]

@Donahue said in Distributing documents:

ok, I really need to get a NC demo going.