From f32767e39e3c2c74a528cb72ceadb249b2172883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Dickert <github@misterunknown.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:19:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Created CLI, Automatization and Cronjobs (markdown)

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+You can use the IFM API to automatically download or upload files, e.g. with curl:
+```bash
+$ curl "https://ifmdemo.misterunknown.de/ifm.php" -X POST -F "api=upload" -F "dir=" -F "file=@path/to/local/file"
+{"status":"OK","message":"File successfully uploaded.","cd":""}
+```
+At the moment there is no complete API specification available, so you have to read the code to perform such calls, or just write me an email.
+
+## autorization
+If you want to use the API with curl and want to use authentication, you can do this by passing the `X-IFM-AUTH` header.  This header is constructed like the widely known basic authorization header. Just join username and password with a colon and do a base64 encode:
+```bash
+$ echo -e "username:password" | base64
+dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
+$ curl -H "X-IFM-Auth: dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=" ...
+```
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