Droopy: easy file receiving

What is it ?
Droopy is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.

Droopy in the browser.

Why ?
Say you’re chatting with a friend on MSN Messenger (perhaps with the excellent pidgin ?). She wants to send you amazing photos she took last week-end, so she uses Messenger file transfer. Unfortunately, the zip file is over 50 MB and it’s painfully slow. Now relax, droopy comes to rescue.

Does it work on my computer ?
You can use it on Unix (Linux, BSD, MacOSX) and Windows. Droopy is a python script so you’ll need to have Python installed.

How to use it ?

Note: A tutorial on how to set up Droopy on Windows was very kindly written by Ronan. The rest of this section focuses on Linux and MacOSX.

Droopy is a command-line program. I’ll suppose you’ve downloaded and saved the file in ~/bin/. Go to the directory where you want the uploaded files to be stored, for example:

mkdir ~/uploads
cd ~/uploads

Then, run droopy. You can give a message and a picture to display:

python ~/bin/droopy -m "Hi, it's me Bob. You can send me a file." -p ~/avatar.png

And it’s up and running on port 8000 of you computer. Check it out at http://localhost:8000, and give your computer’s address to your friends.

Droopy in the terminal.

Type droopy -h to see all options:

Usage: droopy [options] [PORT]

Options:
  -h, --help                            show this help message and exit
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY   set the directory to upload files to
  -m MESSAGE, --message MESSAGE         set the message
  -p PICTURE, --picture PICTURE         set the picture
  --dl                                  provide download links
  --save-config                         save options in a configuration file
  --delete-config                       delete the configuration file and exit

License
Droopy is a free software distributed under the BSD License. There’s a git repository at http://gitorious.org/droopy. New releases are announced on Freshmeat.

Feedback and contribution
I’d love to hear about your experience using droopy. If you have ideas to improve it, please let me know. Pierre – stackp@online.fr.

[download droopy]