https://github.com/stackp/Droopy

Mini Web server that let others upload files to your computer
https://github.com/stackp/Droopy

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Mini Web server that let others upload files to your computer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stackp/Droopy
• Owner: stackp
• Created: 2012-03-14T22:19:58.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-01T22:08:34.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-11-07T15:15:13.164Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: stackp.online.fr/droopy
• Size: 270 KB
• Stars: 304
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 105
• Open Issues: 23
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  • Readme: Readme.md

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README

        
# Droopy

### Easy File Sharing

Copyright 2008-2013 (c) Pierre Duquesne 

Licensed under the New BSD License.

Originally shared at [Pierre's Blog, stackp.online.fr](http://stackp.online.fr/droopy).

### About

Droopy is a standalone, minimal file-sharing server written in pure Python and

designed for simplicity. Originally written to facilitate easy sharing on an

ad-hoc basis, it has become central to systems such as [Piratebox](http://www.piratebox.cc/)

which extend the concept to offline, social filesharing.

![Droopy in the Browser, with a title image](img/droopy-in-browser-thumb.png)

### Usage

Note: [A tutorial on how to set up Droopy on Windows](http://www.techkings.org/general-pc-chat/34104-droopy-tutorial.html)

was very kindly written by Ronan. The rest of this section focuses on Linux and MacOSX.

Droopy is a command-line program. I’ll suppose you’ve downloaded and saved the file in `~/bin/`.

Go to the directory where you want the uploaded files to be stored, for example:

    mkdir ~/uploads

    cd ~/uploads 

Then, run droopy. You can give a message and a picture to display:

    python3 ~/bin/droopy -m "Hi, it's me Bob. You can send me a file." -p ~/avatar.png

![Droopy at the terminal](img/droopy-in-terminal-thumb.png)

And it’s up and running on port 8000 of you computer. Check it out at `http://localhost:8000`,

and give your computer’s address to your friends.

Droopy supports a number of other options; try `python3 droopy --help` for insight.

On Linux, droopy can be run directly without specifically calling `python3`, so

you can put `droopy` into a folder that's in your system PATH variable, such as

`/usr/bin/` and call it directly: `droopy --help`.

### Feedback and contribution

I’d love to hear about your experience using droopy.

If you have ideas to improve it, please let me know.

Pierre – [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).