A simple python script for downloading webcam images deposited in to Dropbox by a ninjablock.
This is a script that accomplishes a set of tasks related to a directory in a dropbox account that is being populated by the ninjablock cloud service from a webcam attached to a ninjablock.
The three tasks are:
o rename files in to a consistent naming pattern based on the file's creation date. The pattern is based on the ISO timestamp format.
o download all new files in to a specified directory (after renaming)
o remove files from the dropbox directory after they have been there for a certain amount of time. Because I plan on having something like this running for months if not years I only want to keep, say, the last week in the dropbox. Everything else is preserved when I download it to a local directory.
It could be argued that the third task should be its own script but I do not want to deal with all the session and other bits of overhead in a separate script at this time.
NOTE: We depend on the python modules listed in the 'requirements.txt' file. All hail 'pip install -r ./requirements.txt' + virtualenvs!