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[airjrdn]

Has anyone done any work using AutoHotkey to connect to Amazon S3? Would it be possible?

[n-l-i-d]

Amazon S3 apparently uses SOAP or XML/REST, and the last one can be done with AHK + curl/libcurl.

SOAP via AHK?

And here an external site that explains the steps to be taken:

Introduction to Amazon S3 with Java and REST

HTH

PS: No, I haven't, yes it is...

[Roger Matthews]

On the Amazon forums, there is this link, http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=739&categoryID=47 which describes a "Simple Command-Line Access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3". The article on Amazon mentioned above links to the following site, http://www.timkay.com/aws/, and especially, http://www.timkay.com/aws/#windows, which is the Windows-oriented versions of his command line utility.

It looks like the user will need to install a Windows-oriented version of "curl" and "Perl", for which downloads are provided on the site. Then one gets a command-line utility to completely control their access to Amazon S3. When I read the capabilities on this site, the FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF WAS AUTOHOTKEY. So I came to the forum, and found this post. I think this command line capability is perfect for a marriage with AutoHotKey, and I will be spending some time working on that. But I wanted to share the find with the AutoHotKey forum . It does not require SOAP or REST or JAVA or any other protocols.

Here is a quote from one of the reviewers who has used this utility: (Dec 2007) "I have been using aws for approximately 2 months. This program makes access to Amazon S3 as easy as it gets. From the simple installation to the command line shortcuts, I never have to rely on any other way of accessing my S3 files. It is as if I have S3 mounted as a file system on my local machine - it's that easy. I wrote the author when I first started using aws to congratulate him on a very useful piece of code, and my favorable opinion of this little program has only grown stronger. "

Here is another review: (Jan 2008) "I have to say a big thanks to Tim for developing such a great way to interact with S3 and EC2. Installation takes about 5 seconds and afterwards you can easily interact with your S3 account from the command line. I use this mainly for moving our backups offsite and haven't had a single problem sending multiple gigabyte files to S3 each night. I've tried a lot of S3 scripts but none comes close the easy of use and reliability this script. "

[airjrdn]

I'd still love to see this happen, but honestly, I didn't have time to wait. I did quite a bit of research and settled on WebDrive which now supports S3. It mounts S3 as a drive letter in windows, and it really doesn't get much easier than that. At that point, both GUI & command line access are available, which makes automating backups (SyncBack, etc.) extremely easy.

I've uploaded about 80G so far, and it's been solid. Failed uploads are auto-retried X times, it backs up files that didn't make it after the set number of retries. It's also backed by some decent support, as I've worked with one of their devs on fixing some minor issues.