Backup your favourite snippets
You can use SnippetsBackup mainly to backup your favourite snippets especially code snippets from supported online services.
A brief description on how to get your copy of SnippetsBackup running.
We recommend using Python 3.7
(current latest version)
Python packages dependencies
Please refer to the requirements.txt
for the updated Python packages dependencies.
- Open your command line or terminal and go to the directory where you installed SnippetsBackup.
- Create a virtual environment in Python in the directory of where SnippetsBackup is located.
python -m venv <name_of_virtual_env>
- Activate the newly created virtual environment.
<name_of_virtual_env>\Scripts\activate.bat
(Windows)<name_of_virtual_env>/bin/activate
(Linux/Mac)
- Install the necessary Python package dependencies using the requirements.txt included by SnippetsBackup
pip install -r requirements.txt
- You can now use SnippetsBackup.
python SnippetsBackup.py
If you want to deactivate your current virtual environment, you can just type deactivate
in your command line or terminal.
The purpose of this project is to serve as a practice for me to learn Python and using public APIs.