Lightweight file storage server with HTTP API.
- Painless configuration! You don't even have to
rewriterequests on your reverse proxy! - Limits support! Link usage count, file size and storage time.
- Embeddable! Can run as part of your application.
You can use filedrop either as a standalone server or as a part of your application.
In former case you want to check filedropd subpackage, in later case just
import filedrop package and pass config stucture to filedrop.New, returned
object implements http.Handler so you can use it how you like.
This repository uses Go 1.11 modules. Things may work with old GOPATH
approach but we don't support it so don't report cryptic compilation errors
caused by wrong dependency version.
master branch contains code from latest (pre-)release. dev branch
contains bleeding-edge code. You probably want to use one of tagged
releases.
filedrop uses SQL database as a meta-information storage so you need a SQL driver for it to use.
When building standalone server you may want to enable one of the supported SQL DBMS using build tags:
postgresfor PostgreSQLsqlite3for SQLite3mysqlfor MySQL
Note: No MS SQL Server support is planned. However if you would like to see it - PRs are welcome.
When using filedrop as a library you are given more freedom. Just make sure that you import driver you use.
Just use github.com/foxcpp/filedrop as any other library. Documentation
is here: godoc.org.
See fildropd subdirectory. To start server you need a configuration
file. See example here. It should be pretty
straightforward. Then just pass path to configuration file in
command-line arguments.
filedropd /etc/filedropd.yml
systemd unit file is included for your convenience.
POST single file to any endpoint to save it. For example:
POST /filedrop
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: XXXX
You will get response with full file URL (endpoint used to POST + UUID), like this one:
http://example.com/filedrop/41a8f78c-ce06-11e8-b2ed-b083fe9824ac
You can add anything as last component to URL to give it human-understandable meaning:
http://example.com/filedrop/41a8f78c-ce06-11e8-b2ed-b083fe9824ac/amazing-screenshot.png
However you can't add more than one component:
http://example.com/filedrop/41a8f78c-ce06-11e8-b2ed-b083fe9824ac/invalid/in/filedrop
You can specify max-uses and store-time-secs to override default settings
from server configuration (however you can't set value higher then configured).
POST /filedrop/screenshot.png?max-uses=5&store-secs=3600
Following request will store file screenshot.png for one hour (3600 seconds) and allow it to be downloaded not more than 10 times.
Note To get https scheme in URLs downstream server should set header
X-HTTPS-Downstream to 1 (or you can also set HTTPSDownstream config option)
When using filedrop as a library you can setup custom callbacks for access control.
See filedrop.AuthConfig documentation.