On Monday 02 May 2011 16:29:53 Priyanka wrote: > Hi Jakob, > > Thanks for your mail. > > As I told, I am interested in allowing users to pull their data from > closed services to ownCloud. > > Flickr and Google Docs are the two that Robin suggested, but their can > be other closed services as well. I went through the Flickr API, and > implemented a small Python script to get a hang of it. > > IMHO, essentially the functionality should be there so that: > - The user can pick and choose which objects she wants to get into the > cloud. - One-way / Two-way synchronization of the documents in the cloud > with these closed services. > > I am not sure if this can be implemented as a plugin. I would rather > suggest developing a client application for this using Python-PyGTK. > The application will allow the user to connect to the service, receive > the files, do the processing she wants and then transfer the same to > the ownCloud server running at some location. > > Since different services have different APIs to take care of, if > possible there should be a pluggable architecture kind of thing > wherein developers could develop plugins for a new service which was > not supported by the application till now. > > Please let me know your views / suggestions. > > Thanks, > Priyanka.
I personally would prefer it being implemented as a server side plugin to make it easier accessable since you don't require people to install something on the client side. A plugable architecture that makes it simple to develop new "import scripts" would certainly be the best way to go. - Robin Appelman _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
