Hi all, One of the few things that I miss from a desktop environment like Gnome Shell or KDE Plasma (currently I use EXWM), is the good integration these environments had with Nextcloud, as I am a heavy user of Nextcloud. Many times I need to create and share a public link to a file in my local folder. In the Nextcloud forum I learned how it can be done from the command line using curl, so starting from that, it wasn’t very difficult to write this function in Elisp to insert a public link at point. It can be inserted in two ways: literally or as an Org bracket link, with description.
For the function to work we must have: a) a folder within our local Nextcloud directory dedicated exclusively to public files; b) a line with our personal data in the ~/.authinfo file. Assuming, for example, that we use a third-party Nextcloud service like Disroot, the necessary line in authinfo would be: machine cloud.disroot.org login <my-user-name> password <my-password> And let’s go with the function. Before I have defined these three variables: ┌──── │ (defvar nextcloud-url "https://cloud.disroot.org") │ (defvar nextcloud-public-folder "~/disroot/Public/") │ (defvar nextcloud-public-folder-name "Public") └──── And the function itself (caveat: the function is not asynchronous): ┌──── │ (defun insert-nextcloud-link () │ (interactive) │ (let* ((file-name (read-file-name "File: " │ nextcloud-public-folder)) │ (file (if (directory-name-p │ file-name) │ (replace-regexp-in-string │ (expand-file-name │ nextcloud-public-folder) │ "" │ file-name) │ (file-name-nondirectory file-name))) │ (desc │ (read-from-minibuffer │ "Link description (enter = no description): ")) │ (auth │ (nth 0 │ (auth-source-search │ :host "cloud.disroot.org" │ :requires '(user secret)))) │ (my-username (plist-get auth :user)) │ (my-passwd (funcall (plist-get auth :secret))) │ (result-raw (shell-command-to-string │ (concat "curl -u " │ "\"" │ my-username │ ":" │ my-passwd │ "\"" │ " -H \"OCS-APIRequest: true\" -X POST " │ nextcloud-url │ "/ocs/v1.php/apps/files_sharing/api/v1/shares -d path=" │ "\"" │ nextcloud-public-folder-name │ "/" │ file │ "\"" │ " -d shareType=3" │ " -d permissions=1"))) │ (result (with-temp-buffer │ (insert result-raw) │ (goto-char (point-min)) │ (re-search-forward "<url>" nil t) │ (let ((desde (point))) │ (re-search-forward "<" nil t) │ (narrow-to-region desde (- (point) 1)) │ (buffer-string))))) │ (if (string= desc "") │ (insert result) │ (insert (format "[[%s][%s]]" result desc))))) └──── Best regards, Juan Manuel