funnel

Funnel is a tool for quickly saving files to AWS S3.

Usage:
  funnel [OPTIONS] [PATHS]

Examples:
funnel --region=us-east-1 --bucket=some-cool-bucket /some/directory

Flags:
  -b, --bucket string                   The AWS S3 bucket you want to save files to
      --delete-file-after-upload        Whether to delete the uploaded file after a successful upload
  -h, --help                            help for funnel
  -n, --num-concurrent-uploads int      Number of concurrent uploads (default 10)
  -r, --region string                   The AWS region your S3 bucket is in, eg. "us-east-1"
  -t, --s3-object-key-template string   The layout template to use for defining the key of an uploaded file (default "{{ filePath }}")
      --version                         version for funnel
  -w, --watch                           Whether to watch a path for changes

Installing funnel using go get

1. Install golang
2. Run go get github.com/timrourke/funnel

Assuming you have configured your $PATH to include binaries in "$GOPATH/bin", you should now be able to run funnel from anywhere on your system.

Building funnel from source

1. Install golang and dep
2. Clone this repository to within your GOPATH
3. Run dep ensure from within the repository to install its dependencies
4. Run go build . to compile the funnel binary
5. Move the funnel binary to somewhere on your $PATH and upload some stuff

Setting the AWS region

funnel will respect the environment variable AWS_DEFAULT_REGION if one is set. Otherwise, pass the AWS region as a CLI flag.

Watching paths for changes

If you want to continually poll a directory for new files and upload them, you can use the --watch flag to enable this behavior. This may be especially useful in the case you want to also delete files following successful upload, by using the funnel option --delete-file-after-upload. This will allow you to constantly sync a directory's new contents to an S3 bucket without filling up your disk.

Paths are polled one second after the last found file was successfully uploaded in the last polling operation.

Customizing the keys of uploaded S3 objects

By default, funnel will assume you want to use the path to the local file on your computer as the S3 object key when uploading files. For example, this file:

funnel --region=us-east-1 --bucket=my-cool-bucket relative/path/to/text.txt

...will be uploaded to S3 with the full path:

s3://my-cool-bucket/relative/path/to/text.txt

In some cases, you may not want to use the local path of a file on your computer as the key of the S3 object. More likely, you'll prefer to organize your files in S3 to suit your specific needs. To achieve this, you can override the default template for generating S3 keys with your own. Several Go template functions are available to define static or dynamic keys.

Overriding the default template for key generation requires using the flag --s3-object-key-template, or -t for short.

You can learn more about Go templates here.

Given the upload command as seen above, the template functions will have the following effects:

• -t "{{ absoluteFilePath }}" -> /absolute/path/relative/path/to/text.txt
• -t "/{{ dateWithFormat \"2006-01-02\" }}/{{ filePath }}" -> /2016-01-02/relative/path/to/text.txt
• -t "some_new_name{{ fileExtension }}" -> /some_new_name.txt
• -t "{{ fileName }}" -> /text.txt
• -t "{{ fileNameWithoutExtension }}" -> /text
• -t "{{ filePath }}" -> /relative/path/to/text.txt
• -t "/some/custom/prefix/of/dirs/{{ filePath }}" -> /some/custom/prefix/of/dirs/relative/path/to/text.txt

Note that the date above, 2006-01-02, is special as far as Go's date format parsing is concerned. You can learn more about how Go parses date formats here and also here.

Finally, note that string arguments passed to Go template functions must be wrapped in double quotes to be parsed correctly (eg. dateWithFormat), but when calling funnel, you may need to escape those double quotes (see the dateWithFormat example above).