Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

guest · Dec 25, 2020

Snapdrop
Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
Snapdrop is built with the following awesome technologies:

Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend

WebRTC / WebSockets

NodeJS backend

Progressive Web App

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FAQ

What about the connection? Is it a P2P-connection directly from device to device or is there any third-party-server?
It uses a P2P connection if WebRTC is supported by the browser. WebRTC needs a Signaling Server, but it is only used to establish a connection and is not involved in the file transfer.
What about privacy? Will files be saved on third-party-servers?
None of your files are ever sent to any server. Files are sent only between peers. Snapdrop doesn't even use a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. Even if Snapdrop was able to view the files being transfered, WebRTC encrypts the files on transit, so the server would be unable to read them.
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Snapdrop - The easiest way to transfer files across devices
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guest · Dec 25, 2020

Share Files Between Multiple Devices Using Snapdrop Via Web Browser
October 7, 2020
https://ostechnix.com/share-files-between-multiple-devices-using-snapdrop-via-web-browser/

While looking for more file sharing utilities, I came across Snapdrop.
For those wondering, Snapdrop is a simple, progressive web application to easily share files between multiple devices on the same network via a web browser.

It doesn't matter which device or OS you use. Snapdrop can able to share files across multiple platforms as long as all the devices are in the same network. For example, you can transfer files from an Android phone to a Linux desktop or share files from your iPhone to a Windows system or share files between two mobile devices. Snapdrop just works out of the box without any configuration or setup.
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Snapdrop is a web-based application, so you don't even need to install it. All you need is just a web browser, for example Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It is also self-hostable. You can host it on your computer and share files instantly with other devices. What more you want?

Snapdrop is considered as a minimal, web-based replacement for Apple's AirDrop local file sharing utility. You can call it a HTML5-clone of AirDrop. The one caveat is that all devices should be on the same network. In contrast to Snapdrop, AirDrop works regardless of network and available by default in stock iOS.
Share Files Between Multiple Devices Using Snapdrop Via Web Browser [...]
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As far as I tested, there are currently no limits on how many files I can share or the size of the file. If you are looking for a dead-simple file sharing utility for your mobile or desktop system, Snapdrop might be a good choice!
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