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
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.
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.
Looks nice but I don't seem to be able to send whole folders, just individual files :/
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.
This seems to work like a charm! It even sends folders and everything :)
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.
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.serverand access your files from any other device on the same network by manually typing your local IP into a browser.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.
Yes but I was talking about the same network :)
LocalSend does exactly what I wanted
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.
afaiu pairdrop and snapdrop only work if both devices are on the same local network, filepizza works over the internet
If I can't type /pizza in EverQuest to get a pizza to wizard itself to my doorstep, I don't even know what technology is trying to do anymore.
a similar tool existed 4 years ago https://www.sharedrop.io/
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.
