kvs.git

1) # Key Value Store

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3) kvs is a rudimentary key/value store written in Python.
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5) # Getting the project
6) 
7) You can get a copy of this project by clicking on the
8) [ZIP](http://git.dlma.com/kvs.git/zipball/master)
9) or [TAR](http://git.dlma.com/kvs.git/tarball/master) buttons
10) near the top right of the GitList web page.
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12) If you're me, and you want to contribute to the repo, then you can clone it like so:
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14)     git clone ssh://USERNAME@dlma.com/~/git/kvs.git
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16) # Building it
17) 

18) 1. Enable Python pages at your web server. See [How to use Python in the web](https://docs.python.org/2/howto/webservers.html#). My configuration is for Apache, hence the .htaccess file.
19) 2. Move auth\_sample.txt to auth.txt, and replace "yourauthorizationhere" with a passcode you choose.
20) 3. Optional: Use secure HTTP. I reccommend getting a free SSL certificate from [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/).
21) 4. If you don't have the YAML module, pip install pyyaml.

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23) # Using it

24) 

25) Here is [a live instance that serves an index page](https://kvs.dlma.com/).  You can send a key to get a value like so:
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27)     https://kvs.dlma.com/?k=1GM35N000010
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29) Special use case, here's how to get the value for the most-recently updated key of a list of keys. The list could contain any number of keys, but only one value will be returned. 
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31)     https://kvs.dlma.com/?k=1GM35N000010,1GU44N010910

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33) Here's the recipe for a cURL command to store a new value for a key: 

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35)     curl --data "key=value&auth={authorization}" https://{url}
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37) Here's [the source code for a Roku channel client of such a service](http://git.dlma.com/roku_ip_tagger.git/). 
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39) # Is it any good?
40) 
41) [Yes](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3067434).