Upload files from the Server with a shell script to the BunnyCDN API

[ChristopherDosin]

Upload media files via the BunnyCDN API

To be able to upload large amounts of media files it's recommended to use the BunnyCDN API.
Also scp takes quite some time, so it might speed up the uploading process.

Here's a simple shell script that you can execute:

Shell script

Create an bunnycdn.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

# URL and API access
# You may want to edit storage to your region
# media is the destination folder within your BunnyCDN storage. You may want to adjust it to your own structure.
dest_url="https://storage.bunnycdn.com/YOUR_STORAGE_NAME/media/"
access_key="FTP_PASSWORD"

# Source folder 
source_path="/path/to/public/media"

# Upload function
function upload_file {
    local file="$1"
    local relative_path="${file#$source_path/}"  # Get the relative path
    local final_url="$dest_url$relative_path"     # Construct the destination URL

    curl --request PUT \
         --url "$final_url" \
         --header "AccessKey: $access_key" \
         --header 'content-type: application/octet-stream' \
         --data-binary "@$file"
}

# Use find to get all files within media folder and upload them
find "$source_path" -type f | while read -r file; do
    upload_file "$file"
done

After you've saved the bunnycdn.sh give the file the permissions to execute it with chmod +x bunnycdn.sh.
Last but not least: Execute the file with ./bunnycdn.sh and watch how your files are uploaded fast.

Running the script in the background using nohup

You may want to run the script in the background if your connection get's interrupted for example.

nohup: Stands for "no hang up." This command runs your script in the background and ignores any hangup signals.
Do to do just execute the following command:

nohup /path/to/your/bunnycdn.sh &

• After running this command, the output will by default be redirected to a file named nohup.out in the same directory, unless the output is redirected elsewhere.
• The & at the end puts the job in the background.

You can close the terminal or disconnect, and the script will keep running.

Watch progress

If you want to watch the progress of the upload, you may use tail -f to watch the output:

tail -f nohup.out

This command will display the end of the nohup.out file and update in real-time as more output is written to it.