sharefile-webui 1.7.0

WEB APP for sharing files via URL links.

sharefile-webui

Simple and lightweight responsive web app for sharing files via URL link. Supports drag&drop chunk upload of large files, basic file and directory operations. Application is based on Python Flask, Flask-Restful and React for simple file administration. It can be comfortebly run on Raspberry Pi.

Usage

sharefile-webui --help
usage: sharefile-webui [-h] [-o HOST] [-p PORT] [-u ADD_USER] [-r REMOVE_USER] [-l] [-t] [-c] share_directory

Share Files WEB UI v1.5.0

positional arguments:
  share_directory       Directory where shares are stored.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o HOST, --host HOST  APP server host
  -p PORT, --port PORT  APP server port
  -u ADD_USER, --add-user ADD_USER
                        Add admin user in user@password format.
  -r REMOVE_USER, --remove-user REMOVE_USER
                        Remove admin user from users list.
  -l, --list-users      List existing admin users
  -t, --list-tokens     List file tokens into stdout
  -c, --clear-tokens    Clear file tokens database

Example:

sharefile-webui -u username@password
sharefile-webui -p 5555 /tmp

This example will share /tmp directory on http://localhost:5555 By requesting this URL you will be prompted to fill user and password to access admin UI to manage file sharing. For each file of directory you can generate secure token. When secure token is generated file could be shared via URL link like this http://localhost:5555/share/directory-name/file-name?token=12345.

Instalation

pip3 install sharefile-webui

systemd configuration

PORT=5555
SHARE_DIR=/tmp
echo "[Unit]
Description=ShareFileWebUI

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c \"/usr/local/bin/sharefile-webui -p ${PORT} ${SHARE_DIR}  >> /var/log/sharefile-webui.log 2>&1 &\"
ExecStop=killall sharefile-webui
ExecRestart=/bin/bash -c \"killall sharefile-webui && /usr/local/bin/sharefile-webui  -p ${PORT} ${SHARE_DIR} >> /var/log/sharefile-webui.log 2>&1 &\"
ExecStatus=ps -ax | grep sharefile-webui
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
" > /lib/systemd/system/sharefile-webui.service
systemctl enable sharefile-webui.service

after that is possible to use

systemctl start sharefile-webui.service

Build it by your own

JS

Build JS production version is not nessesry, because it is already buid in sharefile_webui/static/js directory. But if you want to change something in UI, lets do it by running:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs npm
cd sharefile_webui_js
npm run build

or for comfortable local development

npm run watch

with auto build feature if any file is changed.

Py

cd sharefile_webui
python3 setup.py build

or local installation

cd sharefile_webui
python3 setup.py install

Tips and Tricks

Upload file from command line

It is possile to simply upload file by CURL command via route /api/upload/.
usage:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -u "admin:pass" -F "file=@FILENAME" "http://localhost:5000/api/upload/DIRECTORY"

It is possible to upload file by CURL and share file automatically at ones via route /api/uploadandshare/
usage:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -u "admin:pass" -F "file=@FILENAME" "http://localhost:5000/api/uploadandshare/DIRECTORY"

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