Goshot

A REST wrapper for libgphoto2 in Golang

Installation

go get github.com/charles-d-burton/goshot

Requirements

You will also need libgphoto2 installed. If you are on Mac OS X, I recommend installing it with homebrew.

brew install libgphoto2

Linux

sudo apt install libgphoto2-dev

Also install the Go wrapper for libgphoto2 and gin

go get github.com/charles-d-burton/gphoto2go
go get github.com/gin-gonic/gin

Usage

The goal of this program is to provide a generic REST interface to remotely control a supported camera from libgphoto2.

Setup

Connect a supported camera to a computer Ensure that the computer does NOT mount the camera as a drive this will prevent the camera from initializing In the goshot directory

go run main.go

Taking a Photo

Make a curl or other GET request against localhost:8080/shot

The return JSON contains an "image" field that contains a Base64 encoded JPEG