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Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

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#6 in Go
#1 in P2P
LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN | Aug 2023
croc works very well for this purpose: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right” | Oct 2022
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I think croc is a superior solution here. Encrypted transfer. Automatic local peer detection. Human speakable commands. Turns off when you’re done. No firewall fiddling (and unfiddling)

Pythons web server is single threaded I believe so any simultaneously connections break.

https://github.com/schollz/croc
Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices | Sep 2022
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It's really not at all.

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole - get things from one computer to another, safely

https://github.com/schollz/croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another

https://upload.disroot.org/ - 2GB per file, end to end encrypted, source: https://github.com/ldidry/lufi, other instances: https://alt.framasoft.org/framadrop/

https://datash.co/ - end to end encrypted, made for transfer between two devices

https://send.tresorit.com/ - 5GB per file, end to end encrypted

https://github.com/kern/filepizza - WebRTC + STUN/TURN file transfer between multiple devices

https://instant.io/ - WebTorrent transfers between browsers

https://wormhole.app/ - share files with end to end encryption and a link that expires, or keeps working after closing browser

https://toffeeshare.com/ - p2p, end to end encrypted

https://wetransfer.com/ - emails link to recipient of file

https://docsend.com/ - can protect files with email/pass verification. can revoke access or eSign documents

and many, many more. these are just the ones I've seen that are geared towards direct transfer between two computers, but there's hundreds more sites that offer free file storage, even without an account or any personal info needed.
ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client | Jun 2022
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Or croc!

https://github.com/schollz/croc
Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist? | May 2022
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https://github.com/schollz/croc
OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python | Jan 2022
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You can also take a look at the following:

Croc:

- Site: https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/

- Source: https://github.com/schollz/croc

Magic Wormhole:

- Source: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Send (A fork of Mozilla's Send):

- Site: https://send.vis.ee/

- Source: https://github.com/timvisee/send

- CLI: https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend

I've personally used Snapdrop and Croc before and they're both very nice
Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line | Jul 2021
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This and croc. Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely | May 2021
I'm a huge fan of croc[0]. Very similar to Magic Wormhole, but a bit more flexible and written in go.

Straight from the README:

> croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders. AFAIK, croc is the only CLI file-transfer tool that does all of the following:

- allows any two computers to transfer data (using a relay)

- provides end-to-end encryption (using PAKE)

- enables easy cross-platform transfers (Windows, Linux, Mac)

- allows multiple file transfers

- allows resuming transfers that are interrupted

- local server or port-forwarding not needed

- ipv6-first with ipv4 fallback

- can use proxy, like tor

refs:

[0]https://github.com/schollz/croc

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely | May 2021
See also: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Big list of HTTP static server one-liners | May 2021
My take on this [1]. Explanation article [2]. In fact the use-case I addressed was slightly different (explained in the article) and later I found the similar tool [3] which probably is more powerful.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/serv

[2] https://medium.com/cmlteam/develop-a-utility-on-graalvm-cc16...

[3] https://github.com/schollz/croc

Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send | May 2021
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There's also https://github.com/schollz/croc which is a very simple P2P CLI transfer tool.
Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone | Mar 2021
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There's a webapp version (clone?) of it: https://webwormhole.io/

There's also a nice go port (single binary) of it: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone | Mar 2021
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croc is my favourite way of transferring files between computers I control.

https://github.com/schollz/croc

It's similar to magic wormhole if you've heard of that, but a bit more polished. I think for me it offers the best possible UX.

transfer.sh is also good if you can't install these for whatever reason.
Ask HN: Is there a modern equivalent to instant messenger file transfers? | Feb 2021
Perhaps croc would meet your needs.

https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/

https://github.com/schollz/croc

Ask HN: Is there a modern equivalent to instant messenger file transfers? | Feb 2021
Magic Wormhole. [1,2]

Similar tools: wormhole-william [3] and croc [4]

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/692061/

[3] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

[4] https://github.com/schollz/croc

Termux no longer updated on Google Play | Jan 2021
I just installed this app 2 days ago for running croc [0]

Works great. Will use Termux till/if it breaks.

[0] - https://github.com/schollz/croc

Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC | Dec 2020
Not web based but I have used croc https://github.com/schollz/croc to send files between pc and laptop on same network and between two computers on different continents.
Magic-Wormhole: Get Things from One Computer to Another, Safely | Oct 2020
This is cool, but croc[1] offers the same interface, but with much, much lighter code and an overall better experience (and documentation). It's been posted to HN before[2].

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503077