Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smusamashah on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:57AM (#43343306)

I keep a long list of browser based and CLI p2p file transfer tools[1].

LimeWire (which now has its crypto currency probably) has been on a rampage recently aquiring some of really good tools including ShareDrop and SnapDrop. https://pairdrop.net/ is the last one standing so far.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by sir_eliah on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:30AM (#43344301)

Probably you can also add Dragit[1], which is a desktop p2p file sharing tool for local network with automatic host discovery. Currently supporting Linux and Windows. (author & maintainer here) I'm not sure if I should keep on working on the tool, considering the length of the list so far. :D

[1]: https://github.com/sireliah/dragit

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by makeworld on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:21AM (#43343562)

You should add sendme, it's one of the best I've tried for the CLI. https://www.iroh.computer/sendme

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by kenrick95 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:28AM (#43344282)

Not sure if it's p2p, but I also find that this exist: http://xkcd949.com

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by cship2 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @07:59AM (#43352402)

Over http?

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by d3rockk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:50AM (#43344510)

Bless you.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by westurner on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:12AM (#43344128)

/? inurl:awesome p2p site:github.com: https://google.com/search?q=inurl:awesome+p2p+site:github.co...

Peer-to-peer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:03AM (#43343367)

https://wormhole.app/ has been spared and is pretty good. Encrypted, dl can start before up is finished, decent size limit.

Unrelated to the wormhole python cli tool and associated file sharing protocol.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smusamashah on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:12AM (#43343456)

It's not a p2p tool btw.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smallerize on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:22AM (#43343566)

It can be, if you send files larger than 5GB. https://wormhole.app/faq

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by toomim on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:37PM (#43349876)

Yeah, it uses webtorrent behind the scenes: https://webtorrent.io

...which is freaking awesome torrent software, by the way.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by jeffhuys on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:54AM (#43351714)

It's okay - 99% of the video files I download have to be opened in VLC, though :/

But still, being able to almost immediately stream, even if through VLC, is pretty nice.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by lxgr on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:35AM (#43343712)

Both not to be confused with Web Wormhole, which is also pretty good: https://webwormhole.io/

Slightly different approach – "P2P first", i.e. both sender and receiver need to be online simultaneously throughout the transfer, but there's a TURN relay, so it should work in almost all network constellations.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by macielfclaudio on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:30AM (#43353143)

I use https://onionshare.org/. It's not p2p afaik, but dang! that one is easy to work with.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by asynchronousx on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:00AM (#43343345)

Was very annoyed when they acquired ShareDrop.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by telesilla on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:33PM (#43345646)

I use https://justbeamit.com

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by jech on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:17PM (#43347771)

The Galene videoconferencing system <https://galene.org> includes peer-to-peer file transfer. The web client is built in, but there's also a command-line client at <https://github.com/jech/galene-file-transfer>.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by ajb on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:06AM (#43350932)

My previous company used WeTransfer a lot, because we needed to send large filesystem images and Android releases to and from China, and the great firewall hobbles obvious things like using gdrive.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by madacol on Thursday March 13, 2025 @07:46AM (#43352337)

In the CLI section, magic-wormhole is missing, instead you have wormhole-williams which is just an outdated implementation in GO of the original

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by mmmlinux on Thursday March 13, 2025 @11:10AM (#43354155)

I noticed this when i was actually looking for something exactly like this tool earlier in the week. I didn't realize it was a recent thing.

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