Slobby

Slobby is a minimalistic web-based viewer for slob file content.

Installation

Create Python 3 virtual environment and install slob.py as described at http://github.org/itkach/slob/. In this virtual environment run

pip install git+https://github.com/itkach/slobby.git

Usage

When Slobby starts, it opens specified slob files and starts a web server, by default on port 8013, to allow browsing their content.

slobby [-h] [-p PORT] [-i INTERFACE] [-t THREADS] [-l LIMIT] [-b]
                 [-m MOUNT_PATH]
                 slob [slob ...]

positional arguments:
  slob                  Slob file name (or base name if opening slob split
                        into multiple files)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PORT, --port PORT  Port for web server to listen on. Default: 8013
  -i INTERFACE, --interface INTERFACE
                        Network interface for web server to listen on.
                        Default: 127.0.0.1
  -t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        Number of threads in web server's thread pool.
                        Default: 6
  -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                        Maximum number of keys lookup may return. Default: 100
  -b, --browse          Open web browser and load lookup page
  -m MOUNT_PATH, --mount-path MOUNT_PATH
                        Website root. This facilitates setting up access
                        through a reverse proxy like nginx Default: /

For example, to serve all slob files in ~/Downloads/ directory:

slobby ~/Downloads/*.slob