PointCarréFS

Mount VUB's e-Learning system on your computer, and access documents on the platform like local files !

Examples

You access any course you subscribed to in your favorite file browser:

The filesystem looks like this:

PointCarre/
├── Functional Programming
│   └── Document Functional Programming
│       ├── Lab Sessions
│       │   ├── exercises01.pdf
│       │   ├── exercises02.pdf
│       │   ├── exercises03.pdf
│       │   ├── exercises04.pdf
│       │   ├── solutions01.hs
│       │   └── solutions02.hs
│       └── Slides
│           ├── Black&White
│           │   ├── Chapter 0
│           │   ├── Chapter 1
│           │   ├── Chapter 2
│           │   ├── Chapter 3
│           │   ├── Chapter 4
│           │   └── Chapter 5
│           └── Color
│               ├── Chapter 0
│               ├── Chapter 1
│               ├── Chapter 2
│               ├── Chapter 3
│               ├── Chapter 4
│               └── Chapter 5
├── Methods for Scientific Research
│   └── Document Methods for Scientific Research
│       ├── Assignments
│       │   ├── Assignment 1 - literature review
│       │   └── Assignment 2 - proposal
│       ├── Background reading
│       ├── MWO 2013 - Hints for using R
│       └── Slides
│           ├── Slides Experimental Design
│           ├── Slides introduction
│           └── Slides referencing and literature
...

Usage

Installation

Ensure you have Python2 and virtualenv on your computer, and the fuse library development files (sudo apt-get install python python-virtualenv libfuse-dev on Debian boxes)

git clone <this repo>
virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Mount the filesystem

Provide your netid/password (needed to connect to PointCarre)

echo 'NETID = "<your netid>"' > local_config.py
echo 'PASSWORD = "<your password>"' >> local_config.py

mkdir PointCarre
python fs.py PointCarre

How it works

This program actually makes the HTTP queries you would do in a web browser to provide the files through a Filesystem in USErspace (FUSE). Once a remote resource (directory or file) has been fetched, it is cached in order to speedup subsequent accesses.

Still TODO

Better handling of files without extension (infere type from icon, other resource page, ...)
Faster
Include other section than documents (news ?)
Better error handling

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