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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

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why yet another alternative to magic wormhole? Instead that could get a better web interface.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 7eter@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Waaait what wormholes are we talking about? I am aware these three, sounding similar but incompatible with another: