The President has his birthday coming up and his supporters have specifically requested that people upload video messages for him (see details).

This repo contains a Bash script that demonstrates how to upload a video file to AWS S3 from the command line, instead of from a browser.

Requires curl and jq.

Download the script, set it to be executable:

chmod +x happy-birthday.sh

To see options, just run the script without options:

$ happy-birthday.sh

To upload a particular file and accept defaults:

$ happy-birthday.sh -f /path/to/my/video/file

The script first connects to the main website to get a CSRF token and cookie (which is written to a file called cookie.txt). These are then used to get AWS connection details that describe how to upload the file to S3. The final call to curl then uploads to S3.