copyparty 0.4.0

http file sharing hub

⇆🎉 copyparty

• http file sharing hub (py2/py3) (on PyPI)
• MIT-Licensed, 2019-05-26, ed @ irc.rizon.net

summary

turn your phone or raspi into a portable file server with resumable uploads/downloads using IE6 or any other browser

• server runs on anything with py2.7 or py3.2+
• resumable uploads need firefox 12+ / chrome 6+ / safari 6+ / IE 10+
• code standard: black

notes

• iPhone/iPad: use Firefox to download files
• Android-Chrome: set max "parallel uploads" for 200% upload speed (android bug)
• Android-Firefox: takes a while to select files (in order to avoid the above android-chrome issue)
• Desktop-Firefox: may use gigabytes of RAM if your connection is great and your files are massive

status

• sanic multipart parser
• load balancer (multiprocessing)
• upload (plain multipart, ie6 support)
• upload (js, resumable, multithreaded)
• download
• browser
• media player
• thumbnails
• download as zip
• volumes
• accounts
• markdown viewer
• markdown editor

summary: it works! you can use it! (but technically not even close to beta)

dependencies

• jinja2
  • pulls in markupsafe as of v2.7; use jinja 2.6 on py3.2

optional, enables thumbnails:

• Pillow (requires py2.7 or py3.5+)

sfx

currently there are two self-contained binaries:

• copyparty-sfx.sh for unix (linux and osx) -- smaller, more robust
• copyparty-sfx.py for windows (unix too) -- crossplatform, beta

launch either of them and it'll unpack and run copyparty, assuming you have python installed of course

pls note that copyparty-sfx.sh will fail if you rename copyparty-sfx.py to copyparty.py and keep it in the same folder because sys.path is funky

if you don't need all the features you can repack the sfx and save a bunch of space, tho currently the only removable feature is the opus/vorbis javascript decoder which is needed by apple devices to play foss audio files

steps to reduce the sfx size from 720 kB to 250 kB roughly:

• run one of the sfx'es once to unpack it
• ./scripts/make-sfx.sh re no-ogv creates a new pair of sfx

no internet connection needed, just download an sfx and the repo zip (also if you're on windows use msys2)

install on android

install Termux (see ocv.me/termux) and then copy-paste this into Termux (long-tap) all at once:

apt update && apt -y full-upgrade && termux-setup-storage && apt -y install curl && cd && curl -L https://github.com/9001/copyparty/raw/master/scripts/copyparty-android.sh > copyparty-android.sh && chmod 755 copyparty-android.sh && ./copyparty-android.sh -h
echo $?

after the initial setup (and restarting bash), you can launch copyparty at any time by running "copyparty" in Termux

dev env setup

python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install jinja2  # mandatory deps
pip install Pillow  # thumbnail deps
pip install black bandit pylint flake8  # vscode tooling

how to release

in the scripts folder:

• run make -C deps-docker to build all dependencies
• create github release with make-tgz-release.sh
• upload to pypi with make-pypi-release.(sh|bat)
• create sfx with make-sfx.sh

todo

roughly sorted by priority

• up2k handle filename too long
• up2k fails on empty files? alert then stuck
• drop onto folders
• look into android thumbnail cache file format
• support pillow-simd
• cache sha512 chunks on client
• symlink existing files on upload
• comment field
• figure out the deal with pixel3a not being connectable as hotspot
  • pixel3a having unpredictable 3sec latency in general :||||