boat

Boat lets you instantly share any file over HTTP from command line. You can use boat to share files over local network, or transfer to mobile devices if they are on same WiFi network!

Usage

• To share a file called file.txt, run boat file.txt
• boat will spawn a HTTP server and tell you the corresponding URL
• You can now download file.txt on the local network by going to URL via any client (browser, curl, wget)
• Additionally you can ask boat to generate a QR code: boat --qr file.txt
• boat will then generate a QR code for you which can be scanned easily on mobile devices
• For more help, run boat --help

Features

• Spawns a HTTP server per file, you don't need to worry about port numbers
• The spawned HTTP servers are auto-managed, they kill themselves after a certain timeout or maximum number of requests
• Support for QR code generation to assist mobile devices

Installation

• Pip (Recommended)

  pip install boat
  

• Old School

  git clone --recursive git@github.com:ashisha/boat.git
  cd boat
  python setup.py install

Usage

Basic

  boat file.txt     # prints the url you can use to download file.txt

Transfer to mobile devices

  boat file.txt --qr    # prints the url and QR code you can use to download file.txt

Advanced

  boat --help    # you know it

PS

• Tested on Mac and Linux (ArchLinux) with Python2.7 (pulls welcome)
• Thank you!