Peer-to-peer file transfers in your web browser.

Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser Cooked up by Alex Kern & Neeraj Baid while eating Sliver @ UC Berkeley.

Using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload step required by other web-based file sharing services. When senders initialize a transfer, they receive a “tempalink” they can distribute to recipients. Upon visiting this link, recipients’ browsers connect directly to the sender’s browser and may begin downloading the selected file. Because data is never stored in an intermediary server, the transfer is fast, private, and secure. (Your PC must be online while the recipient download the file(s), if you shutdown the PC or goes offline, the download also stops)

You can selfhost it or use the official instance

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    453·
    2 months ago

    (Your PC must be online while the recipient download the file(s), if you shutdown the PC or goes offline, the download also stops)

    …yeah?. crazy. What’ll they think of next?

  • kevincoxM
    17·
    2 months ago

    I created my own similar tool: https://filepush.kevincox.ca/

    It is optimized for the case where you commonly send files to the same devices. For example I have set up all of my devices as well as my partner’s phone and Steam Deck. Then I can just tap them and send the file with end-to-end encryption.

    It is sort of cool that there is no backing server, just static files. All of the signalling goes over WebPush.

      • kevincoxM
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s a good point, I worded it poorly. The backing server is provided by you (via your browser). In theory you could run your own or whatever you want. But all traffic is encrypted so it doesn’t matter much who runs it.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    13·
    2 months ago

    Only somewhat related, but is there an easy tool for sending files from one device to another when on the same network? I imagine that scenario shouldn’t need some third party server to connect to but I’ve yet to find a tool like this.

    • LukeEnglish
      43·
      2 months ago

      KDE Connect should fit the bill; despite the name, you don’t need to be using KDE (or Linux even) since there are clients for every major OS, even mobile.

      Among many other cool features, it lets you easily and simply just send a file from one device directly to another on your local network. I use it all the time to send photos from my phone to my desktop without plugging anything in, for example.

          • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
            6·
            2 months ago

            That’s too much effort to send a folder, especially as I also need to extract on the destination too.

            I went with LocalSend instead, it sends folders like a charm :)

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
      32·
      2 months ago

      Much simpler and more direct than the other suggestions: LocalSend.

      Also fully open source, local only, cross platform. Only works in the same network, obviously. That’s the point.

    • vort3
      9·
      2 months ago

      Others told about snapdrop, sharedrop, localsend etc.

      But depending on what devices you are talking about, you might do with just an http server.

      I have a file manager on my (android) phone with a http server built in, and my laptop is connected to it via WiFi hotspot all the time. I just start a server on my phone and use a browser or any other download tool (curl, wget) to transfer files from my phone to my laptop.

      If you have python installed, you can run an http server on any device you have (for example, a laptop) via python -m http.server and access your files from any other device on the same network by manually typing your local IP into a browser.

    • yo_scottie_ohEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      There’s an app called Local Send that’s like an alternative to air dropping files on iOS devices, not sure if that’s what you’re talking about or not.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      2 months ago

      RSync, scp, rcp, SMB, sneakernet, plus numerous third-party tools. It depends on the platform and exact scenario.

    • ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee
      72·
      2 months ago

      Syncthing accomplishes both local and Internet transfers and doesn’t need a third party server (if you’re not doing NAT traversal). I don’t think you can send individual files through it’s interface. But you can share a directory and any files you add (or edit) will sync via P2P to other devices.

    • kugel7c@feddit.de
      41·
      2 months ago

      If you are inclined to do things that way there’s also the python Fileserver $ python3 -m http.server 8080

        • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s called Nearby Share. If you click “share” on a particular file, the option to share to a nearby device appears using Nearby Share.

          • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
            1·
            2 months ago

            Hmm I think that works based on Bluetooth. I want it to work based on the network, as some of my PCs don’t have bluetooth. LocalSend works fine though.

    • B0rax@feddit.de
      1·
      2 months ago

      Wormhole (a command line tool) is also a good choice. It works in lan but also over the internet.

    • kevincoxM
      1·
      2 months ago

      You can’t really do this on the web as devices can’t directly connect to one another. You need some signalling server to bootstrap the transfer. However almost all of these WebRTC services will actually do the transfer locally if both devices are connected to the same network and can talk to one another directly.

      So you would need a native application.

    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      afaiu pairdrop and snapdrop only work if both devices are on the same local network, filepizza works over the internet

    • Southern Wolf@pawb.social
      2·
      2 months ago

      Huh, that’s the first time I’ve heard of this. I like IPFS, but I do wish it was just a bit… Smoother to use?

    • ZerushOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yes, there are several p2p apps. Some years ago I used O&O FileDirect, which is very good, free, private (by deinition in this type o sharing), fast and easy to handle, but it’s proprietary soft by an German company and Windows only.

    • Clasm@ttrpg.network
      111·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, this one’s been around for a while and I believe it’s actually p2p, iirc. Wormhole stores your files on their servers for a little bit if they’re < 5 Gb.