copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 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
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