docsbox

Development server provided by VScale.io

$ curl -F "[email protected]" http://dev.scrib.ro/api/v1/

{
    "id": "9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176",
    "status": "queued"
}

$ curl http://dev.scrib.ro/api/v1/9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176

{
    "id": "9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176",
    "result_url": "/media/9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176.zip",
    "status": "finished"
}

$ curl -O http://dev.scrib.ro/media/9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176.zip

$ unzip -l 9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176.zip 

Archive:  9b643d78-d0c8-4552-a0c5-111a89896176.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
    11135  2016-07-08 05:31   txt
   373984  2016-07-08 05:31   pdf
   147050  2016-07-08 05:31   html
---------                     -------
   532169                     3 files

$ cat options.json 
{
  "formats": ["pdf"],
  "thumbnails": {
    "size": "640x480",
  }
}

$ curl -i -F "[email protected]" -F "options=<options.json" http://dev.scrib.ro/api/v1/

{
  "id": "afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1",
  "status": "queued"
}

$ curl http://dev.scrib.ro/api/v1/afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1

{
  "id": "afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1",
  "status": "finished",
  "result_url": "/media/afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1.zip"
}

$ curl -O http://dev.scrib.ro/media/afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1.zip

$ unzip -l afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1.zip
Archive:  afb58e2b-78fa-4dd7-b7f9-a64f75f50cb1.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
   779820  2016-07-10 02:02   pdf
   177357  2016-07-10 02:02   thumbnails/0.png
                              ...
   130923  2016-07-10 02:02   thumbnails/30.png
---------                     -------
 13723770                     32 files

API

POST (multipart/form-data) /api/v1/
[email protected]
options={ # json, optional
    "formats": ["pdf"] # desired formats to be converted in, optional
    "thumbnails": { # optional
        "size": "320x240",
    } 
}

GET /api/v1/{task_id}

Install

Currently, installing powered by docker-compose:

$ git clone https://github.com/docsbox/docsbox.git && cd docsbox
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

It'll start this services:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                 COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
7ce674173732        docsbox_nginx         "/usr/sbin/nginx"        8 minutes ago       Up 8 minutes        0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp       docsbox_nginx_1
f6b55773c71d        docsbox_rqworker      "rq worker -c docsbox"   15 minutes ago      Up 8 minutes                                 docsbox_rqworker_1
662b08daefea        docsbox_rqscheduler   "rqscheduler -H redis"   15 minutes ago      Up 8 minutes                                 docsbox_rqscheduler_1
0364df126b36        docsbox_web           "gunicorn -b :8000 do"   15 minutes ago      Up 8 minutes        8000/tcp                 docsbox_web_1
5e8c8481e288        redis:latest          "docker-entrypoint.sh"   9 hours ago         Up 8 minutes        0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp   docsbox_redis_1

Settings (env)

REDIS_URL - redis-server url (default: redis://redis:6379/0)
REDIS_JOB_TIMEOUT - job timeout (default: 10 minutes)
ORIGINAL_FILE_TTL - TTL for uploaded file in seconds (default: 10 minutes)
RESULT_FILE_TTL - TTL for result file in seconds (default: 24 hours)
THUMBNAILS_DPI - thumbnails dpi, for bigger thumbnails choice bigger values (default: 90)
LIBREOFFICE_PATH - path to libreoffice (default: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/)

Scaling

Within a single physical server, docsbox can be scaled by docker-compose:

$ docker-compose scale web=4 rqworker=8

For multi-host deployment you'll need to create global syncronized volume (e.g. with flocker), global redis-server and mount it at docker-compose.yml file.

Supported filetypes

Input	Output	Thumbnails
Document doc docx odt rtf	pdf txt html	yes
Presentation ppt pptx odp	pdf html	yes
Spreadsheet xls xlsx ods	pdf csv html	yes