Cloud storage

copyparty – portable file server

copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Backend stuff:
    • IPv6 + unix-sockets
    • multiprocessing (actual multithreading)
    • volumes (mountpoints)
    • accounts
    • ftp server
    • tftp server
    • webdav server
    • smb/cifs server
    • qr-code for quick access
    • upnp / zeroconf / mdns / ssdp
    • event hooks / script runner
    • reverse-proxy support
    • cross-platform (Linux, Android, macOS, Windows, iOS, FreeBSD, arm32/arm64, ppc64le, s390x, risc-v/riscv64)
  • Upload:
    • basic: plain multipart, ie6 support
    • up2k: js, resumable, multithreaded
    • no filesize limit! even on Cloudflare
    • stash: simple PUT filedropper
    • filename randomizer
    • write-only folders
    • unpost: undo/delete accidental uploads
    • self-destruct (specified server-side or client-side)
    • race the beam (almost like peer-to-peer)
    • symlink/discard duplicates (content-matching)
  • Download:
    • single files in browser
    • folders as zip / tar files
    • FUSE client (read-only)
  • Browser:
    • navpane (directory tree sidebar)
    • file manager (cut/paste, delete, batch-rename)
    • audio player (with OS media controls and opus/mp3 transcoding)
      • play video files as audio (converted on server)
      • create and play m3u8 playlists
    • image gallery with webm player
    • textfile browser with syntax highlighting
      • realtime streaming of growing files (logfiles and such)
    • thumbnails
      • …of images using Pillow, pyvips, or FFmpeg
      • …of RAW images using rawpy
      • …of videos using FFmpeg
      • …of audio (spectrograms) using FFmpeg
      • cache eviction (max-age; maybe max-size eventually)
    • multilingual UI (english, norwegian, chinese, add your own))
    • SPA (browse while uploading)
  • Server indexing:
    • locate files by contents
    • search by name/path/date/size
    • search by ID3-tags etc.
  • Client support:
    • folder sync (one-way only; full sync will never be supported)
    • curl-friendly
    • opengraph (discord embeds)
  • Markdown:
    • viewer
    • editor
    • variables

Website: github.com/9001/copyparty
Support:
Developer: ed
License: MIT License

copyparty

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