blinkgo

Simple library for interacting with blink cameras, mainly: authentication, listing devices/networks/clips, and downloading clips from local storage

This library was made for my purposes but if you would like to see more features open an issue and I will get to it

Credit to MattTW, who's findings: BlinkMonitorProtocol I used to create this implementation

Features

• authentication
• read networks, cameras, sync modules
• list videos
• download videos

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go

Getting blinkgo

With Go module support, simply add the following import

import "github.com/rekram1-node/blinkgo/blink"

to your code, and then go [build|run|test] will automatically fetch the necessary dependencies.

Otherwise, run the following to install the blinkgo library

$ go get -u github.com/rekram1-node/blinkgo/blink

Documentation

Read the documentation for usage instructions

Authentication

Simple login and 2FA verify pin

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/rekram1-node/blinkgo/blink"
)

func main() {
	email := "example@example.com"
	password := "PLEASE_DON'T_PLAINTEXT_REAL_PASSWORDS"

	// returns account object with: email, password, uuid
	// this is required for login and once authenticated, used
	// for any blink operations
	account := blink.NewAccount(user, pass)

	loginResp, err := account.Login()

	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// if blink wants a 2FA verification you must use the 
	// verify pin operation
	// 2FA is not always required but it is typically
	// required first time on new device
	if loginResp.Account.AccountVerificationRequired {
		fmt.Print("Enter Pin: ")
		var pin string
		fmt.Scanln(&pin)

		// this returns a verify pin response that you can use
		// however, it is unneccessary for this example
		if _, err := account.VerifyPin(pin); err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
	}
}

Local-Storage

I did not discover this myself, this is from blinkpy

The steps for pulling videos from local storage

1. Query sync module for information regarding stored clips
2. Upload the clips to the cloud
3. Download the clips from a cloud URL

Beware the upload/download sequence, there must be a waiting period between the two as the operation is not instantenous

Issues

If you have an issue: report it on the issue tracker