Dropshare

DropShare is a shameless ge.tt / min.us clone. droplr is also similar.

Clients

A few different clients are avaible.

Web

With the web-client you can drag-n-drop or use the normal upload/download.

[http://dropsha.re](http://dropsha.re)

Bash

Usage

dropshare /path/to/file.ext

# Example - share your public ssh key with someone
dropshare ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Example Output

Your file, Sir! (or Ma'am):

http://dropsha.re/#foHsCQA

wget 'http://api.dropsha.re/files/foHsCQA/[email protected]'

curl 'http://api.dropsha.re/files/foHsCQA' -o '[email protected]'

Installation

sudo wget 'https://raw.github.com/coolaj86/dropshare/master/clients/dropshare.sh' -O '/usr/local/bin/dropshare'
sudo chmod a+x '/usr/local/bin/dropshare'

Server

If you're interested in consulting or setup to run DropShare on your private network at your Home Office, or Business please contact [email protected].

Quick Start for Running your own DropShare

0. Install redis. See Appendix (below) for installing redis on OS X.
1. Install Spark with npm install -g spark.
2. Copy config.default.js to config.js, and customize any server settings you would like.
3. Run cd public; ./deploy.sh to compile the static assets.
4. Start the server with spark. By default it runs on port 3700.

Running Tests

Run the tests with:

cd tests
./test.sh

The tests depend on being in the same directory as the test script, due to paths to resources and such.

LICENSE

Dropshare is available under the following licenses:

• MIT
• Apache 2

Appendix

Installing Redis

brew install redis

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist 2>/dev/null || true
cp /usr/local/Cellar/redis/2.2.12/io.redis.redis-server.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist

To start redis manually:

redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

To access the server: redis-cli

Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install redis